infantine
Example Sentences
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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
Once, while playing with some infantine companions, he desired to reach an article that was considerably above their heads.
From Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character by L. H. (Lydia Howard) Sigourney
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 Henry James
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
Sure, now that they held the necessary document, their task was of the most infantine simplicity.
From The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Lewis Wingfield
