Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of discharging an obligation; responsible.
  • Respectable; creditable; becoming one's station.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Prov. Eng. & Scot. Responsible; worthy of credit.

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  • adjective Eye dialect spelling of responsible.

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Examples

  • He was, to use his own expression, a "'sponsible nigger," though he was actually only cleaner up, and carpet sweeper in the office, negroes never being allowed to have any charge in the working of the line, or a more "'sponsible" station than that connected with the office work, though in that they are often confidentially employed in carrying money to the bank, &c.

    First Impressions of the New World On Two Travellers from the Old in the Autumn of 1858 Isabella Strange Trotter 1847

  • These employees will no longer be re-sponsible for just selling goods.

    L.A. Residential 2010

  • Tehy am bein sponsible fur nawt ovarpopleyashun, so am we.

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  • Why not invest with a re-sponsible trader that can actually get a good return on your money, and that would get a faster return.

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  • On the other hand, it was re - sponsible for mistreating animals, paying low wages and exploiting children through its ads.

    A Pyrrhic Mcvictory 2008

  • And since when was he supposed to be re-sponsible for the actions of all the Elemental Mages in this part of the world anyway?

    The Wizard Of London Lackey, Mercedes 2005

  • From the moment her mother suffered the seizure, she worried that she'd been re - sponsible.

    Honeymoon Patterson, James 2005

  • Strange as it seemed, the idea that she could've been re - sponsible for the seizure would have been reason for hope.

    Honeymoon Patterson, James 2005

  • Looking at the communications console, Malic said, "Vincam, add this to the message regarding the penalty for any harm coming to Treir: the pilot re-sponsible for disabling the Bajoran ship and bringing its contents directly to me will be rewarded with a hundred bricks of gold-pressed latinum."

    Demons Of Air And Darkness DeCandido, Keith R. A. 2001

  • I | heard about a doctor in Santa Monica who was supposedly re - 'sponsible for phenomenal cures with acupuncture and herbs.

    Climbing the Mountain Kirk, Douglas 1997

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