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• And likening them to mass murderers amounts to irresponsible, indefensible demonization.2016 January 5, Conor Friedersdorf, “Oregon and the Injustice of Mandatory Minimums”, in The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic…. From the entry Red Tribe
• You call me irresponsible, Blacker, but I've got enough imagination to see 'the altogetherness of everything.'2015, Lisa Regan, Winifred Holtby's Social Vision: 'Members One of Another', page 107. From the entry altogetherness
• It is both irresponsible and disingenuous to talk about safe space as if translesbians make space unsafe.1999, Deke Law, “Evolution”, in Kris Kleindienst, editor, This is What Lesbian Looks Like: Dyke Activists Take on the 21st Century…. From the entry translesbian
• The problem of the deterrent has merely been displaced to the irresponsible and the fanatical.1990, Christine Brooke-Rose, Verbivore, Carcanet, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 47. From the entry superwarhead
• It is both irresponsible and greedy to dig up flatfuls of any wild plant.1976 May, Richard M[alcolm] Ketchum, editor, Blair & Ketchum’s Country Journal, volume III, number 5, Brattleboro, Vt.: Country Journal…. From the entry flatful
• “That’s just the stupid, vulgar, idiotic, irresponsible name the New Zealand government has given it.1969 May 10, Cleveland Amory, “Review: The Galloping Gourmet”, in Merrill Panitt, editor, TV Guide, volume 17, number 19 (841 overall)…. From the entry kiwi fruit
• She thought of Eleanor with her habit of giving spontaneous utterance to stray and irresponsible accusations.1957, Muriel Spark, The Comforters, New York: Avon, published 1965, Part 2, Chapter 8, p. 196. From the entry becloud
• Therefore idiots are always irresponsible, but debiles are as a rule responsible.1954, Nauchni Trudove, volumes 1–2, page 52. From the entry debile
• His submission is that he is of Mongolian extraction and irresponsible for his actions.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 15]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC. From the entry all there
• No sane and pretty girl would carry on in so irresponsible and maladroit a manner.1907, The English Illustrated Magazine - Volume 37, page 184. From the entry homomania
• This is climate change in action, and pretending we aren’t experiencing a climate catastrophe right now is dangerously irresponsible.2022 March 4, Eddie Lloyd, “The PM calls this a natural disaster – it’s not natural, it’s climate change smashing down our doors”, in The…. From the entry climate catastrophe
• That's why this failure of the super committee represents a reckless, irresponsible gamble by our "leaders" in Washington.2011 November 21, David Gergen, “Have They Gone Nuts in Washington?”, in CNN. From the entry grievously
• That kid of yours, child protective services is going to take it away because you are ultimately flighty and irresponsible.2008, Jonathan Segura, Occupational Hazards, page 164. From the entry waterhead
• "This man is highly irresponsible," a spokeswoman tells the Post.2003 December 18, Martin Wainwright, “Happy Chip on a natural high”, in guardian.co.uk, retrieved 24 Aug 2010. From the entry have words
• It is ridiculous—pestilential, not to be borne—that we should be ruled by an irresponsible dictator in all our essential economy!”1966, Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Penguin Random House, published 2018, Book 1, Chapter 2. From the entry pestilential
• It is spawned of the possession of irresponsible power.1909 July 16, The California Weekly, volume 1, page 530. From the entry Bourbonism
• But I think knowing that you are transmissible and still engaging in possible acts that might transmit the virus is an irresponsible thing to do.Quoted in 2024, Lynette J Chua, Jack Jin Gary Lee, Contagion, Technology, and Law at the Limits (page 117). From the entry transmissible
• Nasa administrator Bill Nelson criticised Beijing on Saturday, saying the failure to share the details of the rocket’s descent was irresponsible and risky.2022 July 30, “Nasa criticises China after space rocket makes uncontrolled return to Earth”, in The Guardian. From the entry NASA
• At that time, the Alliance allowed survey fleets to activate any dormant mass relays discovered, a practice considered dangerous and irresponsible by Council-aligned races.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: First Contact War Codex entry. From the entry first contact
• It’s a nasty stewpot of intellectually untenable premises and irresponsible speculation that frequently reads like a “Saturday Night Live” parody of the crackpot right.2007 February 6, Michiko Kakutani, “Dispatch From Gomorrah, Savaging the Cultural Left”, in New York Times. From the entry stewpot
• A maverick person tends to be wild, unsettled, and irresponsible, often an outlaw not bound by the rules and mores of society.2003, Leon Claire Metz, “Maverick”, in The Encyclopedia of Lawmen, Outlaws, and Gunfighters, New York, N.Y.: Facts On File, →ISBN, page…. From the entry maverick
• Even usually thoughtful newspapers such as the Washington Post have cited skateboarding as an irresponsible and vandalous activity to be banned from city streets.2001, Iain Borden, Skateboarding, Space and the City: Architecture and the Body, →ISBN, page 253. From the entry vandalous
• So deal with ME in others, not that blind shield dodging spreading further blindly irresponsible mechanical trauma of fatiguesome gossip of non-prudence.2000, Yang-Un Moon, Multi-Mega-Trans-Metamorphosis: III Arrival, page 90. From the entry fatiguesome
• There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge.1971, Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, New York: Popular Library, →ISBN, page 4. From the entry ether
• However, when our product is required to compete with itself by the reckless and irresponsible commercial conduct of price cutters, our ability to compete diminishes.1958, Paul C. Williams, Discount-House Operations (Unites States Senate), Washington: United States Government Printing Office, page 389. From the entry self-competition
• At that time Frodo was still in his tweens, as the hobbits called the irresponsible twenties between childhood and coming of age at thirty-three.1954, J.R.R. Tolkien, “2, The Shadow of the Past”, in Lord of the Rings, Fellowship of the Ring. From the entry tween
• These trials developed not from communism, not from socialism, but from Stalinism: that is from the irresponsible despotism of the bureaucracy over the people.c. 1930 - 1939, Leon Trotsky, 1:14 from the start, in Trotsky Speech In Mexico (1930-1939), British Pathé. From the entry Stalinism
• All those laws which give to the irresponsible officers of the Executive Government of India absolute powers to override the popular will, are still unrepealed.1922, Mahatma Gandhi, Freedom's Battle. From the entry unrepealed
• We now know that the heedless exploitation of our external environment has been so relentless and irresponsible that human survival on Earth has been placed in actual jeopardy.2026 January 18, “How can we defend ourselves from the new plague of ‘human fracking’? Big tech treats our attention like a resource to be…. From the entry human fracking
• Speaking on Radio 4’s Today programme on Thursday morning, the UK’s security minister, Tom Tugendhat, criticised “irresponsible speculation” and said it had not been “the BBC’s finest hour”.2023 October 19, Daniel Boffey, quoting Tom Tugendhat, “Israel accuses BBC of ‘modern blood libel’ over reporting of hospital strike”, in…. From the entry finest hour
• Such irresponsible comments seem to me clearly an attempt for political reasons to rubbish a past that was of a far better quality than anything that exists today.2020 May 20, Barry Doe, “McLoughlin unfair with opinion of late-BR rail”, in Rail, page 65. From the entry rubbish
• For his brash style and his self-indulgent involvement as both owner and über-fan, Cuban has been called irresponsible, foolish, crazy, an immature imp and a bigmouth.2005 October 23, Howard Beck, “A Maverick Draws Fire in Film, Too”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company…. From the entry über-fan
• That's a real breach of liberty, but suppose he had been an irresponsible superspreader like Typhoid Mary and caused the disease to spin out of control?2003 May 2, Nicholas D. Kristof, “Lock ’Em Up”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 09 Jun 2021. From the entry superspreader
• Kovert suffered from a paraschizophrenic condition, and was a totally irresponsible psychotic whom neither policemen, nor the entire United States Army, would have deterred from the homicide.1955, Court-martial Reports: Holdings and Decisions of the Judge Advocates General, Boards of Review and United States Court of Military…. From the entry paraschizophrenic

Meaning of irresponsible

1. adjective Not responsible; exempt from legal responsibility, not to be held accountable.
2. adjective Lacking a sense of responsibility; performed or acting as though without responsibility; negligent.
3. noun Someone who is not responsible.

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How do you use irresponsible in a sentence?

Irresponsible is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “And likening them to mass murderers amounts to irresponsible, indefensible demonization.”

What is a short sentence with irresponsible?

“It is spawned of the possession of irresponsible power.”

What does irresponsible mean?

Irresponsible means not responsible; exempt from legal responsibility, not to be held accountable.