Sentence examples for the infantile from inspiring English sources

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the infantile

adjective

Pertaining to infants.

  • Infantile paralysis

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He gets the infantile grandiosity, the taunting ironic schmuckiness that dared anyone to take offense.

Not due to suspense, but due to my utter disdain for the infantile plotting.

All of this would seem to mock the infantile complacency of people protected by unearned privilege.

As the infantile Nora, Ms. McTeer would appear to have been oddly cast.

Phil is the charmer, Doug the straight arrow, Stu the square, and Alan the infantile id.

That's a nice change from most of the infantile drivel on the DS.

Elizabeth Taylor's marriages furnished what Mr. Jaffee called the "infantile gag".

The infantile and lewd insults routinely exchanged on the pitch were luridly aired in court.

Despite the infantile subject matter, however, the jokes were clever and his brevity forced you to think for yourself.

Mr. Stuhlbarg expertly demonstrates that in the world of Mr. McDonagh even the infantile can be artful double dealers.

Others are mere annoyances, like why restaurants insist on using the infantile "crispy," when a simple "crisp" will do.

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