irresponsible

Example Sentences

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“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

It was irresponsible and chaotic, but that’s a reliable way to get a lot of attention online.

From Salon • Apr. 24, 2026

Spokesman Davis Ingle told the BBC at the time that "any implication that Administration officials are engaged in such activity without evidence is baseless and irresponsible reporting".

From BBC • Apr. 19, 2026

At that time Frodo was still in his tweens, as the hobbits called the irresponsible twenties between childhood and coming of age at thirty-three.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien