Thesaurus / irresponsible
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At the time, baseball’s plan to return without bubbles opened with scores of positive tests and seemed risky if not irresponsible.
SPORTS DURING A PANDEMIC SEEMED LIKE A TERRIBLE IDEA, BUT THEY HAVE BEEN WORTH THE RISKBARRY SVRLUGAFEBRUARY 1, 2021WASHINGTON POSTYou know, we thought they were harming patients and irresponsible.
HOW TO FIX THE INCENTIVES IN CANCER RESEARCH (EP. 449)STEPHEN J. DUBNERJANUARY 28, 2021FREAKONOMICSIn the government, you have officials who can take irresponsible, populist views that they think the public wants to hear that are contrary, not only to morality and ethics, but also to public health interests.
“EVERYONE IS IMPRESSED BY ISRAELI VACCINATION, BUT I DON’T THINK WE’RE A SUCCESS STORY”LINDSAY MUSCATOJANUARY 22, 2021MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWWith their well-being in mind, it would be irresponsible if I didn’t speak out about the climate crisis.
HOW COMPANY LEADERS CAN TAKE AN ACTIVE ROLE ON CLIMATE CHANGECLAY WILKESJANUARY 21, 2021QUARTZThe time travel fantasy is pure escapism, which is to say it’s both optimistic and wholly irresponsible.
INAUGURATION DAY WAS A MILESTONE, BUT IT’S NOT THE DESTINATIONMONICA HESSEJANUARY 20, 2021WASHINGTON POSTHogan said that spending that much money would be an “irresponsible” action and that he could not do it without legislative approval.
HOGAN PITCHES $750 STIMULUS CHECKS FOR MARYLAND’S POOREST FAMILIESERIN COXJANUARY 12, 2021WASHINGTON POSTFor days after I returned I wandered about out-of-doors in a gay irresponsible mood, and carolled all over the house.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTONOur friends would call you eminently 85 practical, I suppose, and the irresponsible lady sighed.
THE GIRLS OF CENTRAL HIGH ON THE STAGEGERTRUDE W. MORRISONDrunkards are not frequent sights in the Quarter; and yet when these people do get drunk, they become as irresponsible as maniacs.
THE REAL LATIN QUARTERF. BERKELEY SMITHSomething in the childlike attitude, the placid, irresponsible face, brought the old servant's impatience to a climax.
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WORDS RELATED TO IRRESPONSIBLE
- brash
- careless
- foolhardy
- foolish
- heedless
- ill-advised
- ill-considered
- ill-judged
- impolitic
- improvident
- incautious
- inconsiderate
- indiscreet
- inexpedient
- injudicious
- irresponsible
- leaving self wide open
- off the deep end
- overhasty
- playing with fire
- rash
- reckless
- temerarious
- thoughtless
- unadvisable
- unthinking
- unwise
- batty
- bizarre
- cracked
- crazed
- crazy
- cuckoo
- daft
- demented
- derailed
- deranged
- fatuous
- frenzied
- idiotic
- impractical
- irrational
- irresponsible
- loony
- lunatic
- mad
- maniacal
- mental
- moonstruck
- nuts
- nutty
- of unsound mind
- off one's rocker
- out of one's mind
- paranoid
- preposterous
- psychopathic
- psychotic
- rabid
- raging
- raving
- schizophrenic
- screwy
- senseless
- touched
- unhinged
- unsettled
- wild
- around the bend
- batty
- bizarre
- brainsick
- cracked
- crazed
- crazy
- crazy as a loon
- cuckoo
- daft
- demented
- derailed
- deranged
- disordered
- distraught
- dotty
- fatuous
- frenzied
- idiotic
- impractical
- irrational
- irresponsible
- loony
- lunatic
- mad
- mad as a hatter
- maniac
- maniacal
- mental
- mentally ill
- moonstruck
- not all there
- nuts
- nutty
- nutty as a fruitcake
- of unsound mind
- off
- off one's rocker
- out of one's mind
- paranoid
- preposterous
- psychopathic
- psychotic
- rabid
- raging
- raving
- schizophrenic
- screwy
- senseless
- sick in the head
- stark raving mad
- touched
- unbalanced
- unhinged
- unsettled
- unsound
- wild
- wrong
- around the bend
- batty
- bizarre
- brainsick
- cracked
- crazed
- crazy
- crazy as a loon
- cuckoo
- daft
- demented
- derailed
- deranged
- disordered
- distraught
- dotty
- fatuous
- frenzied
- idiotic
- impractical
- irrational
- irresponsible
- loony
- lunatic
- mad
- mad as a hatter
- maniac
- maniacal
- mental
- mentally ill
- not all there
- nuts
- nutty
- nutty as a fruitcake
- of unsound mind
- off
- off one's rocker
- out of one's mind
- paranoid
- preposterous
- psychopathic
- psychotic
- rabid
- raging
- raving
- schizophrenic
- screwy
- senseless
- sick in the head
- stark raving mad
- touched
- unbalanced
- unhinged
- unsettled
- unsound
- wild
- wrong
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