feckless

adjective

feck·less | \ ˈfek-ləs

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Definition of feckless

1 : weak, ineffective She can't rely on her feckless son.

2 : worthless, irresponsible a feckless maneuver that could only serve to strengthen the enemy— Simon Schama

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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

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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 2017

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feckless

adjective

English Language Learners Definition of feckless

: having or resulting from a weak character or nature

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