irresponsive
adjective
not responsive; not responding, or not responding readily, as in speech, action, or feeling.
irresponsiveness
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a word derived from
irresponsive.
Example Sentences
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Miss Greta did not continue to take this irresponsiveness well.
From The Messenger by Elizabeth Robins
The youth was very voluble, despite the irresponsiveness of the audience; he waved his hand indicating the beauties of the island with an air of ownership.
From Love's Usuries by Louis Creswicke
Interest in self-government was being destroyed by the mere remoteness and irresponsiveness of the mechanism.
From Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington by Clinton W. (Clinton Wallace) Gilbert
His heavy lids were dropped over his deep-set eye; he stood motionless, nervously fiddling with his butterfly net—awkwardness, and, as it seemed, irresponsiveness, in his whole attitude.
From Robert Elsmere by Mrs. Humphry Ward
It was that that had made Mollie so careful that she had shut herself off in irresponsiveness, wary and intended, instead of following the fresh pure impulses of her girlhood.
From Abington Abbey A Novel by Archibald Marshall
