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

A little madonna, with almost infantine features, whose breast showed a red heart, pierced with swords, looked at me in a melancholy way from the midst of the branches.

From Annouchka A Tale by Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich

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)

Her delight, indeed, was infantine and unalloyed; for all day long the patriots were declaring that everything was lost, that all was over.

From My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis