feckless
adjective
ineffective; incompetent; futile.
fecklessness
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a word derived from
feckless.
Example Sentences
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Mr. Chanler-Berat brings a sad sense of insecurity to Evgeny, particularly in the scenes when he addresses his father—who remains unseen—abjectly trying to justify his fecklessness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
The fecklessness of McCarthy has been well chronicled, and a further accounting needn’t go on at length.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2023
Workers are no longer reliant on the fecklessness of an employer that could at any moment pivot, downsize or cut wages.
From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2022
Hank has failed upward throughout the show, and his fecklessness has, in a very real way, saved his life a couple of times.
From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2022
This is not, for us, an occasion for joy like a snow day for the grade-school crowd, because Ted blames us for his customers’ fecklessness.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
