How to Use infantile in a Sentence

infantile

adjective
  • Some pieces, like the new passing game, are in infantile stages.
    — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 5 June 2023
  • But the truth is, these images are very infantile, and the fear of the future is driving that return to the past.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2022
  • Have there not been even more bloated and infantile heads of state?
    — Gene Weingarten, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2019
  • There is an infantile phase, a childhood phase, and an adult phase.
    — Team Verywell Health, Verywell Health, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Yes, the insults and name calling are straight out of a playbook that a high school sophomore would find infantile.
    — David Segal, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2017
  • Their wonky, almost infantile look was at odds with the forceful statement made by Smoke .
    — Tom Morris, Newsweek, 14 Feb. 2017
  • And suddenly the story came to me: a mother with two [adult] sons who are infantile … who are used to handling her like a slave.
    — Shannon L. Bowen, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Dec. 2017
  • The old seem infantile, the young act senile, the middle-aged find all that is middle-aged about them disappears.
    — Longreads, 17 Sep. 2019
  • That was at a time where my major-key guitar skills were pretty infantile and there's something to be said for that.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al.com, 11 July 2019
  • But the infantile spasms have given way to another menace: seizures in his brain’s frontal lobes.
    — John Johnston, The Enquirer, 1 Dec. 2020
  • The Boss Baby *** Who needs a movie about a tyrannical infant - or an infantile tyrant?
    — Philly.com, 28 May 2017
  • At present, the drug is best known for treating infantile spasms, a rare infant seizure disorder.
    — Joshua Cohen, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Just six or seven babies a year in the United States are born with severe infantile Pompe disease.
    — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2022
  • The Count’s bloodthirsty selfishness is held up by contrast as evil, yes, but also as infantile.
    — Stefan Beck, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Not long after her arrival at memory care, Mom began a series of infantile clashes with the staff.
    — Winston Ross, Longreads, 8 Dec. 2019
  • At first, that setting might sound infantile for the adult machinations of Shakespeare’s play, but give it a moment, and the anachronisms of this mash-up start to feel oddly appropriate.
    — Ron Charles, The Denver Post, 18 May 2017
  • Ayla — the doctors’ first success — has severe infantile Pompe, a genetic disorder that can be fatal in the first year of life.
    — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Even to Trumpian standards the Hulk comparison is infantile.
    — Michael Birnbaum, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2019
  • There are still rooms and contexts in which Germans — and now the head coach of the English national football team — are subject to infantile innuendo.
    — Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
  • His needs are more primitive, an infantile hunger for approval and praise, a craving that can never be satisfied.
    — CBS News, 22 June 2018
  • His needs are more primitive, an infantile hunger for approval, and praise, a craving that can never be satisfied.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Since humans evolved to care for our young, research suggests we’re drawn to infantile features in other animals, like big eyes, round cheeks and stubby limbs.
    — Hannah Richter, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 July 2024
  • To pretend that any war is won or lost is to impose an infantile logic on a complex tangle of murder, primal emotion, and money.
    — Megan K. Stack, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2021
  • The infantile abomination that is The Boss Baby is the most unhinged example of the studio’s manic folly.
    — James Grebey, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Hence his admiration for foreign despots, and his infantile delight in his own bad manners.
    — George Will, Twin Cities, 7 Aug. 2019
  • Hence his admiration for foreign despots, and his infantile delight in his own bad manners.
    — George F. Will, The Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2019
  • Hence his admiration for foreign despots, and his infantile delight in his own bad manners.
    — George F. Will, The Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2019
  • Hence his admiration for foreign despots, and his infantile delight in his own bad manners.
    — George Will, Twin Cities, 7 Aug. 2019
  • Hence his admiration for foreign despots, and his infantile delight in his own bad manners.
    — George Will, Twin Cities, 7 Aug. 2019
  • Hence his admiration for foreign despots, and his infantile delight in his own bad manners.
    — George F. Will, The Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2019

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