Example sentences for: irregardless

How can you use “irregardless” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Recently I was editing a manuscript of a dictionary in which the lexicographer labeled irregardless an illiteracy, and I suggested that a less critical, more clinical term might be nonstandard . Readers might disagree, but I felt that regardless is more, so to speak, in the public domain than an expression like tête-à-tête , which one might classify as an “intellectualism” and, certainly, a more pretentious term than get-together or meeting . If one is going to be pretentious, one ought to get his pretences properly in a row.

  • "Today's Papers" appreciates all its sharp-eyed grammarian readers and will press on irregardless of its occasional missteps.


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