infantine
Example Sentences
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Still, is it possible to write about unimaginable cruelty with the infantine levity of a jigsaw puzzle?
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 16, 2019
Sure, now that they held the necessary document, their task was of the most infantine simplicity.
From The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Lewis Wingfield
It has the simplicity and abandonment of infantine, with the fulness of mature feeling.
From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Margaret Fuller
Richard slept undisturbed the sleep of the infantine and just.'
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield
The idea is an infantine one, possible of entertainment only in the initial state of human knowledge.
From A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays by Charles Bradlaugh
