Both Uses of
irresponsible
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- Of late, too, he looked somehow bloated and seemed more irresponsible, more uneven, had sunk into a sort of incoherence, used to begin one thing and go on with another, as though he were letting himself go altogether.†
Chpt 1 *
- It was unreflecting of him, but it was just his irresponsible want of reflection that made him so confident that his father would give him the money, that he would get it, and so could always dispatch the money entrusted to him and repay the debt.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(irresponsible) a lack of concern about consequences