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 have known an idiot child, perfectly infantine in his general ways, amuse himself half the day long with employing his perceptions of number and quantity.
From Household Education by Harriet Martineau
Now!—Ah, infantine Gorilla, Every small suburban villa With your rising fame will ring; All the sort of folk who bring Buns unto the prisoned bear, To your cage will come, and stare.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, November 5, 1887 by Various
Intellectual photography was then in an infantine state.
From Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) by George Jacob Holyoake
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
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