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

It struck me he would not be much older, and I had learned to love him too well in his infantine and affecting weakness.

From Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 by Sheppard, Elizabeth

I am afraid that, for you, the season will have no great animation; but you will, I suppose, see a good deal of infantine exhilaration about you....

From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by James, Henry

Until an hour before the coming of Belshazzar, Istar had been alone with the child, believing it to be suffering from some infantine ailment.

From Istar of Babylon A Phantasy by Potter, Margaret Horton