Use irresponsible for when talking about duties, actions, or consequences. Irresponsible of is generally not idiomatic in current English.
Use irresponsible for to describe responsibility connected to actions, people, money, safety, or outcomes. Do not normally use irresponsible of.
These forms are not interchangeable. Choose the construction by meaning, not by which preposition appears most often.
Use irresponsible for followed by a noun or gerund describing the action.
Use irresponsible for to connect a person or organization with harmful results.
With is often used to describe careless handling of money, information, or authority.
The same subject can take different constructions because each sentence answers a different question.
Some combinations appear in real text but do not mean what learners often assume.
Do not use irresponsible of as a normal adjective-preposition combination.
✕ He is irresponsible of the project. ✓ He is irresponsible for the project.Irresponsible describes careless behaviour, while responsible for can simply mean having duty or control.
✕ She is irresponsible for managing the team. ✓ She is responsible for managing the team.Irresponsible usually needs for or with depending on the meaning.
✕ The company was irresponsible the accident. ✓ The company was irresponsible for the accident.Choose the expression that matches the intended meaning.
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Yes, in the structure it is irresponsible of someone to do something.
Yes. You can say a person or company was irresponsible for damage, delays, or losses.
Irresponsible for refers to actions or outcomes, while irresponsible with refers to careless handling of something.
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