Sample Sentences for
irresponsible
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    Barney Northrup had called her parents "irresponsible" and had called her something worse, much worse.  (source)
    irresponsible = thoughtless or careless
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    Last year when Gram and Gramps drove to Philadelphia, they were stopped by the police for irresponsible driving.  (source)
    irresponsible = reckless
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    He ceased to work at his tooth and sat still, assimilating the possibilities of irresponsible authority.  (source)
    irresponsible = careless (without concern about consequences)
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    Instead, he found a suitably irresponsible companion, donned his Olympic dress uniform, and descended on Berlin.  (source)
    irresponsible = reckless
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    So he resigned the presidency of the Golden Fleece Debating Society, stopped writing his school spirit column for the newspaper, dropped the chairmanship of the Underprivileged Local Children subcommittee of the Good Samaritan Confraternity, stilled his baritone in the chapel choir, and even, in his most impressive burst of irresponsibility, resigned from the Student Advisory Committee to the Headmaster's Discretionary Benevolent Fund.  (source)
    irresponsibility = not caring
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    It was said they were comparing texts and, irresponsibly, the texts were named.†  (source)
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    It was the little ones, the Irresponsibles.†  (source)
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    Worse yet, it was irresponsible.  (source)
    irresponsible = careless or reckless
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    An artist, stealing paints from a store, for example, imagines himself to have made an inevitable but immoral decision, and then he sees ' self as fallen from grace; what follows is despair and petty irresponsibility, as if morality were a great glass world which can be utterly shattered by one act.†  (source)
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    Nevertheless, my duty in this instance was quite clear, and as I saw it, there was nothing to be gained at all in irresponsibly displaying such personal doubts.†  (source)
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    A lot of her friends were Pentecostals whose parents held that Mom and Dad were disgracefully irresponsible and took it upon themselves to save Maureen's soul.  (source)
    irresponsible = thoughtless
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    The idea of telekinesis itself has been a bitter pill for the scientific community to swallow, with its horror-movie trappings of ouija boards and mediums and table rappings and floating coronets; but understanding will still not excuse scientific irresponsibility.†  (source)
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    It began to pound profoundly, then waited irresponsibly, hitting in some sort of inward mockery first at his ribs, then against his eyes, then under his shoulder blades, and against the roof of his mouth when he tried to say, "Good afternoon, madam."†  (source)
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