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
Or so forlorn, so helpless, so infantine a fool?
From The Man in Black by Stanley John Weyman
"The House that Jack Built," an infantine production with 4 lines and a chimney, the sort of thing that we all have done as children.
From Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 by Mary King Waddington
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
"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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