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
I went to the door and knocked—no answer—“Oes neb yn y tŷ?” said I. “Oes!” said an infantine voice.
From Wild Wales The People, Laguage & Scenery by George Henry Borrow
My mother, meanwhile, sat near us on a stone bench, and the old pilgrim stood behind her, contemplating with mild gravity our infantine employments.
From The Devil's Elixir Vol. I (of 2) by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann
It will be a long time before the infantine public are brought round to Walt Whitman's views on versification.
From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco
"That fawn-skin-dappled hair of hers, And the blue eye Dear and dewy, And that infantine fresh air of hers."
From The Tree of Knowledge A Novel by Mrs. Baillie Reynolds
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