Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun the habitual failure to behave in a responsible manner; irresponsibility.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a form of untrustworthiness; the trait of lacking a sense of responsibility and not feeling accountable for your actions
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Examples
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Her transient irresponsibleness and mischievousness are then cited as everyday, persistent vices.
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We had won disregard of all the bother and contradictions, the vanities and absurdities of the toilful, wayward, human world, and had acquired a glorious sense of irresponsibleness and independence.
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With all her irresponsibleness and her outside naughtiness and frivolity, her carelessness of men's feelings, her nonsense, and her teasing, pretty ways, I know that she is good at heart, sound, and sane and sweet.
A Sheaf of Corn Mary E. Mann
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But while this little trait of general irresponsibleness in the
The Ghost in the White House Some suggestions as to how a hundred million people (who are supposed in a vague, helpless way to haunt the white house) can mak Gerald Stanley Lee 1903
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She saw again and again that he was irreclaimably a fool and a prodigy of irresponsibleness.
The Old Wives' Tale Arnold Bennett 1899
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The elder sister, however, makes strong efforts to forbid the banns, and her interest prevails on a "President" (the half-regular power of the French _noblesse de robe_, though perhaps less violently exercised, must have been almost as galling as the irresponsibleness of men of birth and "sword") to interpose and actually stop the arranged ceremony.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889
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We had won disregard of all the bother and contradictions, the vanities and absurdities of the toilful, wayward, human world, and had acquired a glorious sense of irresponsibleness and independence.
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Her transient irresponsibleness and mischievousness are then cited as everyday, persistent vices.
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No child should have to have their whole future cut short because of the irresponsibleness of some jerk.
unknown title 2009
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I think there are more than just this person to be held responsible with this sort of irresponsibleness!
Blogger KING 2008
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