Definitions
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. the habitual failure to behave in a responsible manner; irresponsibility.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a form of untrustworthiness; the trait of lacking a sense of responsibility and not feeling accountable for your actions
Examples
“Her transient irresponsibleness and mischievousness are then cited as everyday, persistent vices.”
“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.”
“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.”
“But while this little trait of general irresponsibleness in the”
“She saw again and again that he was irreclaimably a fool and a prodigy of irresponsibleness.”
“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
“I think there are more than just this person to be held responsible with this sort of irresponsibleness!”
“Nobody proposes, or has proposed, to interfere with any existing rights of property; the majority have not assumed to decide upon any question of the righteousness or policy of certain social arrangements existing in any part of the Confederacy; they have not undertaken to constitute themselves the conscience of their neighbors; they have simply endeavored to do their duty to their own posterity, and to protect them from a system which, as ample experience has shown, and that of our present difficulty were enough to show, fosters a sense of irresponsibleness to all obligation in the governing class, and in the governed an ignorance and a prejudice which may be misled at any moment to the peril of the whole country.”
“Because of the political selfishness and irresponsibleness from Congress, as well as the greediness of Wallstreet, my kids’ future is in jeopardy.”
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