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Meanings of irresponsibility in English

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irresponsabilitat

A form of untrustworthiness; the trait of lacking a sense of responsibility and not feeling accountable for your actions.

irresponsabilitat
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Examples for "irresponsibleness"
Examples for "irresponsibleness"
1
Her transient irresponsibleness and mischievousness are then cited as everyday, persistent vices.
The Confessions of a Beachcomber
2
She saw again and again that he was irreclaimably a fool and a prodigy of irresponsibleness.
The Old Wives' Tale
Usage of irresponsibility in English
1
That idea, too, was condemned as a licence for irresponsibility when introduced.
The Irish Times
2
His arbitrary irresponsibility shook the confidence of the nation in his sincerity.
Dryden's Palamon and Arcite
3
The irresponsibility with how we act with each others information is interesting.
The Irish Times
4
That was the moment at which the leadership lurched into criminal irresponsibility.
The Guardian
5
The swing of the last six bars suggests his shrug of irresponsibility.
Indian Story and Song, from North America
6
Her dismay vanished, leaving a blithe sense of irresponsibility in its place.
Greatheart
7
He had to remember: panic made people irresponsible...and irresponsibility led to death.
Creepers
8
The Senate are still more disproportionate, and for long terms of irresponsibility.
Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From the Papers of Tho...
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None of us wanted to reward irresponsibility, but who were we punishing?
True compass: a memoir
10
Kitty was a sprite, with all the irresponsibility of such incalculable creatures.
The Marriage of William Ashe
11
You will start to-morrow morning and begin your life of temporary irresponsibility.
Humanly Speaking
12
Money can mask incompatibility or financial irresponsibility but for only so long.
Ebony
13
Could the fairy tales of your childhood surpass it for benevolent irresponsibility?
Dennison Grant: A Novel of To-day
14
A pleasant feeling of irresponsibility was beginning to possess his jaded spirit.
The Sisters-In-Law: A Novel of Our Time
15
Perhaps it was just Fido's youth that he lacked, and his irresponsibility.
Balloons
16
His colleagues observed another symptom-wasit of his irresponsibility or his wisdom?
Queen Victoria
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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