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
• 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 | [e-mail], 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
• 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
• 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
• Hence his admiration for foreign despots, and his infantile delight in his own bad manners.
  — George F. Will, The Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2019
• In fact, most people can’t remember events from the first few years of their lives – a phenomenon researchers have dubbed infantile amnesia.
  — Vanessa Lobue, Scientific American, 10 June 2022
• For decades, Sanrio’s central export has been Hello Kitty, an emblem of infantile feminine charm who wears an oversize bow on her head and doesn’t even have a mouth.
  — Amanda Hess, New York Times, 18 July 2017
• The drug, however, is used primarily to treat infantile spasms.
  — Ed Silverman, STAT, 3 Mar. 2020
• That brings us to the latest iteration of DeSantis’ infantile stunt.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2022
• Cyril gets things done in the house of Woodcock while Reynolds and Alma are acting insane (this is not an exaggeration), tries to manage both of their infantile streaks, and does it all without breaking a sweat.
  — Cecil Beaton, Vogue, 23 Jan. 2018
• Her gait, once reminiscent of a toddler, begins to steady as Bella’s infantile brain matures.
  — Sonia Rao, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2023
• Calvin had infantile nephrotic syndrome as a result of a new mutation on his WT1 gene, a mutation that was not carried by either parent.
  — Nara Schoenberg, chicagotribune.com, 16 June 2017
• Dunst sleepwalks through this noxious comedy based on Toby Young’s 2001 memoir of the same name, playing a writer who takes a reluctant liking to Pegg’s infantile nitwit.
  — Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 12 Apr. 2024
• Hayles channels the melancholy and loneliness of her character’s plight, as well as the physical comedy of an enraged Claudia forced to wear a frilly, infantile costume onstage.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 12 May 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024