Irresponsible

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  • adjective. Marked by a lack of responsibility.
  • adjective. Lacking a sense of responsibility; unreliable or untrustworthy.
  • adjective. Not liable to be called to account by a higher authority.
  • noun. One who has no sense of responsibility.
  • noun. One who is unlikely to be called to account by a higher authority.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Not responsible; not subject to responsibility; not to be held accountable, or called into question: as, an irresponsible government; the irresponsible control of wealth.
  • Not capable of or chargeable with responsibility; unable to respond to obligation, as an insolvent debtor; not subject to or incurring legal responsibility, as an infant or idiot for his acts; not of a responsible nature or character.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Not responsible; not liable or able to answer for consequences; innocent.
  • adjective. Not to be trusted; unreliable; lacking a proper sense of responsibility.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Lacking a sense of responsibility; incapable of or not chargeable with responsibility; unable to respond to obligation.
  • adjective. Not responsible; not subject to responsibility; not to be held accountable, or called into question.
  • noun. Someone who is not responsible.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. showing lack of care for consequences
  • Word Usage
    ""What shadow of reason," he asks, "is there for doubting that such sales as are necessary and inevitable will be far more sagaciously managed by a Local Board, which the ratepayers elect _for this sole purpose_, than either by magistrates who are irresponsible and do not suffer sensibly from the public vice, or by an _irresponsible_ or _multitudinous_ Committee of Parliament?"
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