irresponsive
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of irresponsive
First recorded in 1840–50; ir- 2 + responsive
Example Sentences
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Black Africa has progressed despite intricate problems, irresponsive and irresponsible "neighbors" and exogenously calculated attempts to undermine and cripple her.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Now, just get your supper, and give up fooling, will you? or your ale will be cold, and I shall go away and leave you," was the very irresponsive reply of the dame.
From The Last of the Vikings by John Bowling
The sensitive rapidly enters the next stage, when he becomes insensible to pain, and irresponsive to the address of any one except the operator.
From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Hudson Tuttle
What a fund of love the heart must be capable of feeling for a living, sentient thing, when we see how it can cling to some object inanimate and irresponsive.
From Tony Butler by Charles James Lever
In such isolation the heart must lose its keen sense of sympathy, and be irresponsive and dumb.”
From Jan Vedder's Wife by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
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