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

That which you call my cause is yet in an infantine state.

From The History Of The Last Trial By Jury For Atheism In England A Fragment of Autobiography Submitted for the Perusal of Her Majesty's Attorney-General and the British Clergy by Holyoake, George Jacob

Yet, in your rage for infantine reform, You rushed this most ridiculous enactment— Its earliest victim—your neglected son!

From Mr Punch's Model Music Hall Songs and Dramas Collected, Improved and Re-arranged from Punch by Anstey, F.

A little madonna, with almost infantine features, whose breast showed a red heart, pierced with swords, looked at me in a melancholy way from the midst of the branches.

From Annouchka A Tale by Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich