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Example sentences for "infantile"

Lexicographically close words:
infans; infant; infanta; infanterie; infanticide; infantilism; infantine; infantry; infantryman; infantrymen
  1. The patient's entire personality should be changed and more mature viewpoints substituted for the unrealistic and infantile viewpoints which lead to the addiction in the first place.

  2. The theory that regression can spotlight personality disorders found in more infantile states is also widely held.

  3. The occurrence of these infantile color blotches was so common in Japan as to be almost characteristic of the race.

  4. I concluded that the presence of the spot might be an infantile character, as it is among the Japanese, but at that time I had no opportunity to examine Maya babies.

  5. The fierce Moors, the negroes of infantile intelligence, the sullen Hindus, appeared to him more deserving of respect than all the ermine-bordered togas parading haughtily and aggressively through the cloisters of the German universities.

  6. Some have even maintained that race-differences cannot be detected in the infantile skull.

  7. It runs monotonously to ready explanations, a somewhat infantile smugness and hopefulness, a habit of reducing the unknowable to terms of the not worth knowing.

  8. And yet her profile, which showed against the dark pillar at which she stood, was very round and young and surprised, and altogether much more infantile than the proud full face which she turned on the world.

  9. It struck her that there was something infantile about his tone, a shade of resentment much as a child might feel against its nurse.

  10. She would have watched his face, infantile and pugnacious with dreams of the day's game, until she longed too strongly to touch him and kiss him.

  11. To be sure there was a kind of infantile cyclone out on the plains, memorable for its superb atmospheric effects, and the rapidity with which we shut down the windows to keep from being inflated balloon-fashion.

  12. Talipes valgus is very rare as a congenital defect, but is common enough as a result of infantile paralysis and as such is apt to be combined with the calcanean variety.

  13. The very babe in the cradle is taught mysterious and terrible things by the mother that bore it,--infantile experiences of distrust and terror, out of which a few come up noble, the many infamous.

  14. I tried baby-talk, in the hope of making my amiable sentiments intelligible to so infantile a creature, but in vain.

  15. According to the latter the temple-records of the Nile preserved the traditions of times reaching back far beyond the infantile fables of the Greeks.

  16. Nothing but the ingeniously sculptured tobacco pipe, or the better-fashioned pottery, gives the slightest hint of progress beyond the first infantile stage of the tool-maker.

  17. In faith, however infantile it may be, there is an undeveloped capacity, a germ of fitness, for dwelling with God.

  18. There have been two men in the world, says Paul, the fallen Adam, with his infantile and undeveloped perfections, and the Christ, with His full and complete humanity.

  19. Two years later, Flexner isolated the bacillus of infantile paralysis and Plotz that of typhus fever.

  20. He grew quite accustomed to waking and finding her there, and in his waking moments for two or three days he clasped her fingers with an almost infantile helplessness.

  21. Secchi, or of universal solidarity is far, indeed, from that infantile conception which finds the causes of human phenomena in the free wills of individuals.

  22. And yet the prodigality of the Indian and the caribou-killer are infantile compared with the big extravagances that go on without much comment.

  23. The conscious mind takes over at morning, unaware that these infantile motivations have been cleverly woven into its very structure.

  24. In these children, as the years go by, infantile patterns unable to work during sleep will fight a losing battle during waking hours with conscious patterns accumulating in the direction of adulthood.

  25. Meanwhile, the infantile unconscious mind expands misinterpreted experience into the toxic patterns of neurosis and psychosis.

  26. The struggle between duty and repulsion made havoc even in her infantile breast.

  27. I hailed the sigh, unmistakably from infantile lips, which now rose from some place very much nearer us than the hollow regions overhead toward which my ears had been so long turned.

  28. Had it not been for the haunting and pathetic smile which by some freak of fate gave poignancy to her otherwise infantile beauty, I should not have known the woman who stood there with my name formed on her lips.

  29. And as he said these words, he laid his head down upon the bosom of his unknown relative, and shrunk close to him, as if half afraid because of the mystery that, in his infantile mind, hung around the picture on the wall.

  30. And there was the little fellow pulling at the insensible body of his father, in an (sic) extacy of infantile joy at his return.

  31. The carriage of the infantile gentlemen was graceful and easy: and they wound through the mazes of the dance with an air of manliness and elegance truly French.

  32. The beauty of the latter, though longer in coming to maturity, and less perfect, is more permanent and interesting than the infantile and bewitching loveliness of the former.

  33. The unfurling of the four-fold screen was always a sure sign that Nellie was taking an infantile illness seriously.

  34. Such a nonsensical and infantile rejoinder deserved no answer, and it received none.

  35. She was in a breathing heat, and on her open face was an expression of the most infantile astonishment.

  36. This event became famous in the nursery, for in September 1834 he has to express contrition for having in play used the words 'By the busy bee' as an infantile equivalent to an oath.

  37. Their very size and clumsiness make me feel a kind of tenderness for them--their unwieldy bulk has something infantile about it.

  38. He combines a penetration into the motives of others with an infantile indifference to exposing them at inconvenient times.

  39. She turned him toward the light, and gazed up at his eyes with such earnestness, such penetration on her almost infantile face, that he pressed her closer to him and laughed a low laugh.

  40. She was a little below average height, with almost infantile shortening of curves in her pretty, stanch outlines.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "infantile" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aboriginal; autochthonous; baby; babyish; beginning; budding; characterless; childish; childlike; creation; elemental; elementary; embryonic; fetal; formative; fundamental; immature; inaugural; inceptive; inchoate; incipient; infant; infantile; initial; initiative; initiatory; introductory; inventive; juvenile; kittenish; nascent; newborn; original; parturient; pregnant; prenatal; primal; primary; prime; primeval; primitive; procreative; puerile; rudimentary; young


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    infantile mortality; infantile paralysis