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irresponsive

/ir-i-spon-siv/US // ˌɪr ɪˈspɒn sɪv //UK // (ˌɪrɪˈspɒnsɪv) //

不负责任的人,无动于衷,不负责任的,不回应的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : not responsive; not responding, or not responding readily, as in speech, action, or feeling.

Examples

  • He saw the hints plainly enough, but had evidently made up his mind to be doggedly irresponsive.

  • "He told me this tale," Mrs. Sumfit continued, daring her irresponsive enemy to contradict her, with a threatening gaze.

  • Science too has been something of an irresponsive mistress since, though I've served her better than I served Marion.

  • Robert's eager soul meanwhile, for once irresponsive to Catherine's, was full of nothing but the Squire.

  • The nun turned upon him a pair of cold, steel-blue eyes, as calm and irresponsive as if he had brought her no tidings whatever.