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

Now!—Ah, infantine Gorilla, Every small suburban villa With your rising fame will ring; All the sort of folk who bring Buns unto the prisoned bear, To your cage will come, and stare.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, November 5, 1887 by Various

Once, while playing with some infantine companions, he desired to reach an article that was considerably above their heads.

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

But whatever may be the opportunities and capabilities of infantine gymnastics, there is always one way in which fathers may indirectly, but very powerfully, influence their children, and that is through the mother.

From A New Atmosphere by Hamilton, Gail