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Irresponsibly

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ir·re·spon·si·ble  (r-spns-bl)
adj.
1. Marked by a lack of responsibility: irresponsible accusations.
2. Lacking a sense of responsibility; unreliable or untrustworthy.
3. Law Not mentally or financially fit to assume responsibility.
4. Not liable to be called to account by a higher authority.
n.
1. One who has no sense of responsibility.
2. Law One who is mentally or financially unfit to assume responsibility for one's actions.
3. One who is unlikely to be called to account by a higher authority.

irre·sponsi·bili·ty, irre·sponsi·ble·ness n.
irre·sponsi·bly adv.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adv.1.irresponsibly - in an irresponsible manner; "he acted irresponsibly"
responsibly - in a responsible manner; "we must act responsibly"


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Blake entered this room, and took the Diamond, last year, acting unconsciously and irresponsibly, under the influence of opium.
Determined, at any rate, to overwhelm all his enemies at once in a great satire, he bent all his energies, with the utmost seriousness, to writing 'The Dunciad' on the model of Dryden's 'Mac Flecknoe' and irresponsibly 'dealt damnation 'round the land.
 
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