chiefly Scottish

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for feckly
Adverb
  • States, and now nonstate actors, have been engaging in wars of various kinds almost constantly since World War II.
    Elizabeth D. Samet, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2025
  • This is one of the most popular portable heated blankets on Amazon, with almost 500 perfect ratings.
    Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 29 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Besides being one of the best ways to stay warm, puffer jackets are also unbelievably packable, much like this Eddie Bauer down jacket that has insulation for chilly days but can be folded or rolled to practically half its size.
    Kelsey Glennon, Travel + Leisure, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The key to detecting them, then, wasn’t to simply build a detector sensitive enough to see each individual neutrino; that would be a practically impossible task.
    Big Think, Big Think, 28 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Vietnam’s Communist Party chief, To Lam, visited North Korea in early October — the first such trip in nearly two decades — while reports suggest Hanoi may pursue the purchase of 40 Russian Su-35 fighter jets.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Though the Maldives is the first country to enact such a ban, similar proposals have been debated – and nearly imposed – in other parts of the world.
    Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 3 Nov. 2025
Adverb
  • Jacksonville businesses of all kinds have been affected by the downstream effects of the second-longest government shutdown in history, including Chicken Country, a restaurant that has provided the area with Southern cooking for about 50 years.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The aircraft had taken off from Retford Gamston Airport, located about 25 miles away in Nottinghamshire, just before the crash, the BBC reported.
    Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 31 Oct. 2025
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“Feckly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/feckly. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.

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