Sample sentences for IRRESPONSIBLE

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Definition

a lack of concern about consequences

Last year when Gram and Gramps drove to Philadelphia, they were stopped by the police for irresponsible driving.
Sharon Creech -- Walk Two Moons

irresponsible = dangerous (without concern for consequences)

Young man, what you did was irresponsible and reckless.
Margaret Peterson Haddix -- Among the Hidden
Abraham Lincoln's irresponsible bodyguard John Parker never presented himself for duty or tried to help in any way on the night of the assassination.
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Lincoln
And yes.... your dad was destructive .... irresponsible .... a child.
Donna Tartt -- The Goldfinch
It was said they were comparing texts and, irresponsibly, the texts were named.
Frank Herbert -- Dune
It was completely thoughtless and irresponsible and selfish.
Sophie Kinsella -- Confessoins of a Shopaholic
There is the issue of irresponsibility to be considered.
Ted Dekker -- Black: The Birth of Evil
He stormed around the office and shouted about the irresponsibility of the handicapper.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Seabiscuit
I think it would be irresponsible, as a physician, to take him.
Tracy Kidder -- Mountains Beyond Mountains
Taft did not believe that this was inconsistent with the conservative doctrine; conservatism in his opinion was not irresponsibility.
John F. Kennedy -- Profiles in Courage
But then his upper lip curled back into a spiteful sneer, and Mariam knew then the futility, maybe even the irresponsibility, of not finishing this.
Khaled Hosseini -- A Thousand Splendid Suns
Am I not a madman, and therefore irresponsible?
Anton Chekhov -- Uncle Vanya
You expect me to ask, 'But what made them lazy and stupid and irresponsible?' and you expect me to answer, 'The system!
John Gardner -- The Sunlight Dialogues
This is an authority to him to pay you that money, to lay out at your irresponsible discretion for your friend.
Charles Dickens -- Great Expectations
He had adored her, she told Elizabeth, and satisfied her every whim, but he had tended to irresponsibility.
James Baldwin -- Go Tell It on the Mountain
He ceased to work at his tooth and sat still, assimilating the possibilities of irresponsible authority.
William Golding -- Lord of the Flies
Irresponsibility leads to censure and to punishment.
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers — Modern English Edition 2
Irresponsible waste management, if you ask me.
Rick Riordan -- The Lightning Thief
"And it's irresponsible to even consider any of that."
Nora Roberts -- Blood Brothers
I still think it's pretty irresponsible," Jacob suddenly said.
Stephenie Meyer -- Eclipse

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