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Recent Examples of feckless Continue reading … Click here for more cartoons… MEDIA ‘STUBBORN OLD MAN’ – 'Obama bros' trash Biden for 'feckless' op-ed about January 6. Fox News, 8 Jan. 2025 Unmatched material strength is often squandered by a feckless foreign policy. Michael Beckley, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025 The Republican president-elect frequently casts the outgoing Democratic president as a feckless leader who shredded American credibility around the world during his four-year term. Aamer Madhani and Zeke Miller, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2024 The proposal quickly drew criticism, with those who oppose a pay increase arguing that lawmakers are too feckless or otherwise undeserving of even a modest salary bump. Gord Magill, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for feckless 
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Adjective
  • Early attempts that fell short reveal that most cellular love affairs are unsuccessful.
    Molly Herring, WIRED, 26 Jan. 2025
  • Funding Nearly Halted Worldwide: State Department Putin Faces 'Really Big Problems' in Russian Economy: Report The U.S. has been sued in the past over the policy, though the lawsuits have been unsuccessful.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 26 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The isolation is deepened, some federal employees said, by the fact that most of their fellow Americans see the federal government as bloated and inefficient.
    Erica L. Green, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2025
  • Musk also posted his views on the Artemis architecture, stating it to be extremely inefficient.
    Andrew Jones, Space.com, 20 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • But none of this means that the court, or the quest for international justice more broadly, is ineffectual.
    Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 27 Nov. 2024
  • The data indicates that Trump’s idiosyncratic efforts to target individual companies for presidential bullying were ineffectual.
    Steven Tian, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • There may be strategic reasons for having a diverse workforce, especially to reflect the firm’s customer base, but imposing government requirements on anything but merit and the interests of the company is counterproductive.
    Phillip Molnar, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Allowing taxpayer dollars to subsidize sugary sodas, which offer zero nutritional value and contribute to costly health conditions, is counterproductive.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 30 Jan. 2025

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“Feckless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/feckless. Accessed 6 Feb. 2025.

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