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 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

Intellectual photography was then in an infantine state.

From Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Holyoake, George Jacob

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