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Recent Examples of feckless This period is not a golden age — but rather the age of feckless politicians. Willie Wilson, Chicago Tribune, 27 Mar. 2025 Many of these new candidates will be ordinary citizens who are fed up with the feckless and do-nothing politics of the Democratic establishment. Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2025 The Little Maria controversy did no favors for human-rights activists, either, whom the government liked to paint as feckless—or even as smugglers masquerading as do-gooders. Lauren Markham, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025 Other governments won’t let the White House reduce them to feckless subordinates. Bloomberg Opinion, Twin Cities, 14 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for feckless
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Adjective
  • Later that month, Kalyn Free, an attorney from Oklahoma who was unsuccessful in her bid for a vice chair position, filed a complaint alleging that the DNC improperly merged two separate questions into a single vote.
    Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 May 2025
  • Several attempts to establish at least a partial ceasefire have been unsuccessful.
    DASHA LITVINOVA, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2025
Adjective
  • The space weather exercise overseen by NOAA found that inefficient communication between space weather experts and other government agencies and stakeholders likely to deal with the fallout of these incidents could lead to incorrect conclusions.
    Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 16 May 2025
  • Businesses often overlook the financial consequences of poor hiring decisions or inefficient technology, yet these areas directly affect the bottom line.
    Raja Walia, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
Adjective
  • For a business, a high-speed connection can mean the difference between productive or ineffectual operations, customer satisfaction or abandonment, and ultimately profit or loss.
    Glenn Katz, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
  • We’re trapped behind a screen, too, and even more ineffectual at stopping these characters from hurting themselves and each other.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Both Lyman and Nordhaus say shrinking the NRC would be counterproductive.
    Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 9 May 2025
  • But not entirely on how or who’s in charge Harvard’s public refusal of Trump’s demands, Ackman asserted this week, was a counterproductive move that led to an unnecessary legal fight, as the university soon sued the government to restore its funding.
    Andy Rose, CNN Money, 6 May 2025

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“Feckless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/feckless. Accessed 21 May. 2025.

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