irresponsibility
- a word derived from irresponsible.
Example Sentences
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The remainder of Joyce’s life, after departing Dublin, is a tale of domestic struggle, personal irresponsibility and heroic achievement.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
A spendthrift trust is irrevocable and designed to protect a beneficiary’s inheritance from creditors, civil lawsuits resulting from an alleged $100,000 bank fraud and/or, as importantly, their own financial irresponsibility.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 16, 2026
And he slammed cadres who for "too long been accustomed to defeatism, irresponsibility and passiveness".
From Barron's • Jan. 20, 2026
Often, the man’s callous irresponsibility would trigger a response that would snowball into something “unhinged,” intentionally augmented for dramatic effect.
From Salon • Jul. 25, 2025
What kind of people, in which parts of the country, exhibited the highest degree of financial irresponsibility?
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
