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daredevil, devil-may-care, foolhardy, harum-scarum, hell-for-leather, kamikaze, reckless
Antonyms: Adjective
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He's too irresponsible to keep a job for more than a week. She made irresponsible comments that helped cause the riot. It would be irresponsible to ignore the threats.
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Any attempt to suggest a motive so early in the investigation would be irresponsible, Biehl said. — John Seewer, Fortune, "Republican Governor Calls for Gun Sale Background Checks After Ohio Shooting," 6 Aug. 2019 Any attempt to suggest a motive so early in the investigation would be irresponsible, Biehl said. — John Seewer, BostonGlobe.com, "Ohio governor set to talk policy in wake of mass shootings," 6 Aug. 2019 Rushing the process without engagement and analysis is irresponsible. — Kendra Black, The Denver Post, "Kendra Black: Inexplicable exceptions, a closed door process and no goal — let’s table the Denver “pollution tax”," 16 Aug. 2019 The district has hired hundreds of substitutes to replace educators and staff members who left for picket lines, a move that the teachers union has called irresponsible. — Christopher Weber, The Seattle Times, "Parents wonder if kids are learning amid Los Angeles strike," 14 Jan. 2019 The idea rankled the design establishment, which lambasted Gilman’s ideas as socially irresponsible and immoral. — Diana Budds, Curbed, "The utopian ‘feminist apartment hotels’ of Charlotte Perkins Gilman," 24 July 2019 But just because Democrats have been irresponsible in calling people racists doesn’t mean Republicans get a free pass when the real thing shows up. — Mona Charen, National Review, "False Racism Accusations Don’t Excuse the Real Thing," 19 July 2019 In a recent article lamenting the Sanders phenomenon, Wilentz accused the left of being irresponsible in its economic promises, solipsistic in its embrace of identity politics, and disrespectful toward the achievements of the liberal tradition. — Nicholas Guyatt, The New York Review of Books, "How Proslavery Was the Constitution?," 6 June 2019 Richardson has just under a million subscribers to his YouTube channel, but has received criticism from some conservation groups who say that his promotion of close contact with lions is irresponsible. — Natasha Daly, National Geographic, "Why people risk their lives for the ultimate animal selfie," 12 Mar. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'irresponsible.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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