Example Sentences

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"I leave it entirely to you," he declared, introducing at last into the intellectual torment of chess some of the happy irresponsibleness of bridge.

From Poor Relations by MacKenzie, Compton

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.

From A Sheaf of Corn by Mann, Mary E.

Her transient irresponsibleness and mischievousness are then cited as everyday, persistent vices.

From Confessions of a Beachcomber by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)

She saw again and again that he was irreclaimably a fool and a prodigy of irresponsibleness.

From The Old Wives' Tale by Bennett, Arnold

I do not believe the doctrine of "the irresponsibleness of America as a nation" to be politically sound; still less do I believe it to be the doctrine of the Bible.

From Discussion on American Slavery by Breckinridge, Rev. Robert J.