infantine

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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

The creature's name was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart�"Spiteful, sniggering, conceited, infantine Mozart!" as the play's Salieri, his contemporary and rival, calls him.

From Time Magazine Archive

His sports, his rambles in the garden, and the demonstrations of infantine pleasure, were sweet to him.

From Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character by Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard)

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 Wingfield, Lewis

Or so forlorn, so helpless, so infantine a fool?

From The Man in Black by Weyman, Stanley John