Examples of feckless in a Sentence

She can't rely on her feckless son. a well-intentioned but feckless response to the rise in school violence

Recent Examples on the Web Though Hoichi survives and prospers, his epithet is a clue about which part of his body a feckless monk forgets to paint. — Christopher Carroll, The New York Review of Books, 25 May 2021 When one of Rambo’s overseas handlers—a feckless government bureaucrat based in Thailand—turns out to be lying about his military service record, Rambo more or less shrugs it off. — Chris Lehmann, The New Republic, 21 May 2021 Essentially, college sports needs the federal legislative branch to save an inept, bumbling, feckless NCAA from itself. — Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 6 May 2021 The additions of two transfers, Kenneth Walker III and offensive tackle Jarrett Horst, are not only expected to enhance the team’s feckless rushing attack but also improve the vertical passing game by making the play-action element more substantial. — Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 25 Apr. 2021 By maintaining a Trump-era policy backing the export of lethal weapons to Kiev, Biden has avoided the pitfalls of feckless Obama administration policies. — The Editors, National Review, 27 Apr. 2021 There were multiple suicide attempts, and there were men, alternately feckless and controlling, some of whom left her and at least one of whom—Kenneth Doolittle, a sailor and an opium addict—destroyed some of her work. — Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2021 On Frank of Ireland, a ribald Irish sitcom that bows on Amazon Prime Video Friday, Brian Gleeson (Phantom Thread) plays a feckless and egomaniacal singer-songwriter named Frank who lives with his mother, Mary (Pom Boyd). — Clark Collis, EW.com, 14 Apr. 2021 Portraits of a few of these feckless rotters line the wall on the way to dinner, along with the portrait of another of the doughty women who seem to keep popping up in Yorkshire. — Joshua Levine, Travel + Leisure, 7 Mar. 2021

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