irresponsible
adjective
said, done, or characterized by a lack of a sense of responsibility.
irresponsibleness
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a word derived from
irresponsible.
Example Sentences
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She saw again and again that he was irreclaimably a fool and a prodigy of irresponsibleness.
From The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett
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 Mary E. Mann
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 Rev. Robert J. Breckinridge
Her transient irresponsibleness and mischievousness are then cited as everyday, persistent vices.
From Confessions of a Beachcomber by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
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.
From Confessions of a Beachcomber by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
