feckless
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Synonyms & Antonyms for feckless
Synonyms
counterproductive, hamstrung, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, inefficient, inexpedient
Antonyms
effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient, expedient, operant, ultraefficient
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The Kremlin dared to act in such a brazen way because the West’s response to its campaign in Ukraine so far has been largely feckless. — Adrian Karatnycky, WSJ, "Ukraine Is Moscow’s Guinea Pig," 28 Nov. 2018 Right or wrong, plenty of Twitter’s users view Dorsey as a feckless, spineless suit unwilling to address even the most basic problems plaguing his platform. — Parker Molloy, The Verge, "Roasting Jack Dorsey’s beard may be petty, but it’s also part of a time-honored tradition," 7 Sep. 2018 In truth, millennials aren't a uniform cohort of feckless young people. — refinery29.com, "Not An Entitled Millennial: How 4 Young Women Support Their Whole Families," 27 June 2018 But a fine cast (including Bobby Cannavale as Laura’s feckless ex-husband) can’t compensate for the screenplay’s superficial sentimentality and lazy slapstick. That Rolls-Royce is pretty sweet, though. — Shana Feste, New York Times, "Review: A Father and Daughter Renegotiate ‘Boundaries’," 21 June 2018 In this wise, discomfiting novel, a feckless American travels to the west of Ireland, marries into a local family, then looks for love elsewhere. — New York Times, "11 New Books We Recommend This Week," 15 Feb. 2018 But while the deal's most vocal opponents see it as a feckless pact with the great malign power of the Middle East, other analysts point to the complexity of the situation within Iran itself. — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, "American and Iranian hard-liners await the end of the nuclear deal," 4 May 2018 But their most dangerous hitter, Aaron Judge, has been feckless of late. — Brian Costa, WSJ, "A Pair of Aces Help Astros Take a 2-0 Lead Over the Yankees in the ALCS," 15 Oct. 2017 The dialogue can occasionally feel a bit canned, as if lifted from a lesser sitcom, and the author overplays the scenes of his narrator as a feckless, self-loathing alcoholic, endlessly recycling glimpses of him drunk, drying out and drunk again. — Special To The Washington Post, The Denver Post, "In “Shtum,” parents wreck their home to find a better one for their autistic son," 26 May 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'feckless.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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