Both Uses of
irresponsible
in
The House of Mirth
- She sat talking in low murmurs with Selden, and turning a contemptuous and denuded shoulder toward her host, who, far from resenting his exclusion, plunged into the excesses of the MENU with the joyous irresponsibility of a free man.†
Chpt 1.5 *
- Even the most irresponsible pretty woman of her acquaintance had her inherited obligations, her conventional benevolences, her share in the working of the great civic machine; and all hung together in the solidarity of these traditional functions.†
Chpt 2.9
Definition:
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(irresponsible) a lack of concern about consequences