infantile

Example Sentences

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“There was a lo-fi quality about it. It had something candid that didn’t necessarily have an infantile tone but had a lightness. And we could add lyrics to that music.”

From Los Angeles Times

"We say this defamatory, frankly puerile and infantile behaviour by a grown man in respect of these people was, and is, beyond the pale of what is tolerable in society and therefore characterised as criminal."

From BBC

If “democracy” has all along been nothing more than a scam rigged to benefit the powerful, then the solution lies in blatant, shameless and overtly infantile version of one-man rule.

From Salon

But lately, more disturbing procedures are on the rise - chasing an unrealistic, hyper-feminine, almost infantile ideal.

From BBC

As O’Toole also observes, Trump’s anti-European animus has a potent psychosexual subtext, simultaneously rooted in right-wing American macho posturing and his own infantile sense of narcissistic injury.

From Salon