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  • noun Plural form of irresponsible.

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Examples

  • How strange two "irresponsibles" should chum away up here!

    Rhymes of a Rolling Stone 1916

  • I'll have a post about this in y blog in the next few weeks, where I talk about the "irresponsibles" and the "frugals".

    MoneyBlogNetwork 2008

  • Drunkenness and promiscuous lust go together and those two irresponsibles incline people to be heedless of their need for protection.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Sex Education, Dirty Words, and the Due Process Clause 2010

  • Clinton's supporters threatening to vote for Mccain are total irresponsibles ...

    More than three-quarters rate economic conditions poor 2008

  • Drunkenness and promiscuous lust go together and those two irresponsibles incline people to be heedless of their need for protection.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Sex Education, Dirty Words, and the Due Process Clause 2010

  • Some of the most daring things in Shakespeare, the newest heresies of the Renaissance, are voiced by irresponsibles.

    The Growth of the Soil 2003

  • He's a fierce scolder of elites, their cheerleaders, and their jesters, chiding Harvard students for moral indifference, Tom Peters for claiming 'life is a hustle,' Jerry Seinfeld for being 'irony incarnate,' and at times sounding like mid-career Archibald Macleish pounding 'the irresponsibles.'

    The West Virginian DeMott, Benjamin 2000

  • (Applause) Could it possibly be a lack of culture, ignorance, and irresponsibility -- because those men, in addition to being reactionaries, imperialists, warmongers, (userers?), and traffickers in death (applause) are also irresponsible -- arch-irresponsibles.

    MASS RALLY MARKS CDR ANNIVERSARY 1962

  • Even so, urchins, curio seekers and irresponsibles attempted to jaunte into the wreckage, only to be burned by the induction field and depart, squawking.

    The Stars My Destination Bester, Alfred 1956

  • Even so, urchins, curio seekers and irresponsibles attempted to jaunte into the wreckage, only to be burned by the induction field and depart, squawking.

    The Stars My Destination Bester, Alfred 1956

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