Definition of "sponsible" []

• Eye dialect spelling of responsible. (adjective)

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• "He was, to use his own expression, a "'sponsible nigger," though he was actually only cleaner up, and carpet sweeper in the office, negroes never being allowed to have any charge in the working of the line, or a more "'sponsible" station than that connected with the office work, though in that they are often confidentially employed in carrying money to the bank, &c."
• "These employees will no longer be re-sponsible for just selling goods."
• "Tehy am bein sponsible fur nawt ovarpopleyashun, so am we."