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

The infantine struggle with serpents was a favourite subject.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various

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 Fuller, Margaret

This infantine note be-132-longs to the cloister and the pulpit.

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington