How to Use irresponsible in a Sentence

irresponsible

adjective
Definition of irresponsiblenext
Synonyms for irresponsiblenext
  • He's too irresponsible to keep a job for more than a week.
  • It would be irresponsible to ignore the threats.
  • She made irresponsible comments that helped cause the riot.
  • That tiny voice in you that, from time to time, urges you to be a little irresponsible?
    — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 29 Apr. 2023
  • He, a boy, and me, his cool but slightly irresponsible guardian.
    — Dan Musgrave, Longreads, 9 May 2023
  • Dan’s irresponsible artist brother Garth and Chess, the mother of his young son Odin, also play a role in the events that unfold.
    — Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 12 Nov. 2023
  • The world is a different place now and Trump should not be making these irresponsible threats.
    — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 14 Feb. 2024
  • That brings us to what may be the most preposterous and irresponsible claim aired by Ladapo during the roundtable.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2023
  • In the annals of irresponsible utopianism, few names stand out like that of Bronson Alcott.
    — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2023
  • None of this is to suggest the producers of these shows were irresponsible in their spending or went way over budget.
    — Vulture, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The fine is part of the FCC’s efforts to deal with irresponsible activity in Earth’s orbit, as stated by the agency.
    — Catalina Makhmudova Petrenko, WSJ, 16 Oct. 2023
  • That brings us back to the irresponsible conspiracy-mongering of the press.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2023
  • There are still those who say OpenAI was irresponsible to release these technologies to the public, but one thing seems clear at the end of 2022: large language models are here to stay.
    — Time, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Such false and irresponsible claims on Fox News were numerous, as the companies’ lawsuits make clear.
    — Erik Wemple, Washington Post, 7 July 2022
  • Clubs should be encouraged to be as irresponsible as possible in order to cling on to its coattails.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2023
  • And this is the problem with not having a speaker right now, George, and – and the actions taken by some members of my party were wholly irresponsible without this going on.
    — ABC News, 8 Oct. 2023
  • Not everyone with a low credit score got it from being irresponsible, but plenty of people with one did.
    — The Editors, National Review, 21 Apr. 2023
  • With so many horrible events in the news on a daily basis, reporting the weather this way seems irresponsible and reckless.
    — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 26 Mar. 2023
  • The fact that the SEC feels the need to discuss such stringent penalties as forfeiting a home game just shows how irresponsible some of its member institutions truly are.
    — Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel, 30 Apr. 2023
  • To pretend that's not happening is irresponsible in its own way.
    — Owen Myers, EW.com, 30 June 2022
  • After losing his job and his family, Gi-hun has become a deadbeat dad to his daughter, and an irresponsible son to his mother.
    — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 17 June 2022
  • What the president was reflecting was that the stakes are high right now given what’s going on on the battlefield in Ukraine and given the very irresponsible and reckless comments made by Vladimir Putin in just the last few days.
    — ABC News, 9 Oct. 2022
  • Experts say that bots and bad actors can easily skew the results of a Twitter poll, and so basing decisions on one is irresponsible.
    — Taylor Lorenz, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Nov. 2022
  • That said, Trump’s comments on the case have been typically outlandish and irresponsible.
    — The Editors, National Review, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The Kremlin’s mishandling of the war, compounded by Prigozhin’s ensuing mutiny, has made the government appear irresponsible and the state weak.
    — Tatiana Stanovaya, Foreign Affairs, 8 Aug. 2023
  • What is happening in terms of sending these migrants -- most of whom have fled great harm, and sending them across the country for the sake of some political showmanship is just irresponsible.
    — ABC News, 30 July 2023
  • This will result in some people doing irresponsible things by being high and driving.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 23 Aug. 2023
  • To use Sawan’s other adjective, standing by as this warming happened is the most irresponsible thing that humans have ever done.
    — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 16 July 2023
  • Some argued that turning down the money would be irresponsible and unfair to taxpayers.
    — Sabrina Shankman, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Oct. 2022
  • Moreover, prosecutors argue, the Crumbleys were irresponsible with money, spending $4,000 in one year at a liquor store, but not a dime on the mental health care of a child who was seeing demons and pleading for help.
    — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 4 Aug. 2022

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