irresponsibility
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“Call it megalomania, genius, madness, audacity, irresponsibility, whatever you want,” said Jorge Castañeda, a former foreign minister of Mexico who once tangled with Castro.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Tanya Buxton, owner of Paradise Tattoo Studio in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire said: "It's encouraging irresponsibility."
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
A spendthrift trust is irrevocable and designed to protect a beneficiary’s inheritance from creditors, civil lawsuits resulting from an alleged $100,000 bank fraud and/or, as importantly, their own financial irresponsibility.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 16, 2026
And he slammed cadres who for "too long been accustomed to defeatism, irresponsibility and passiveness".
From Barron's ● Jan. 20, 2026
He had adored her, she told Elizabeth, and satisfied her every whim, but he had tended to irresponsibility.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
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