irresponsible
Example Sentences
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Anti-doping officials decry the event as unethical, irresponsible and dangerous.
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026
“Feel bad in the sense that you regret you can’t go and that it will have an impact on people, but don’t let someone guilt-trip you or make you feel like you’re an irresponsible person.”
From MarketWatch • May 6, 2026
Lai’s trip to Eswatini was a display of his “fighting character,” but risked “being seen as irresponsible from a national-security perspective,” said James Yifan Chen, who teaches international relations at Taiwan’s Tamkang University.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026
"That would have been irresponsible, particularly because it wasn't meant to float."
From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026
Abraham Lincoln’s irresponsible bodyguard John Parker never presented himself for duty or tried to help in any way on the night of the assassination.
From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly
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