How to Use feckless in a Sentence

feckless

adjective
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  • She can't rely on her feckless son.
  • The Jets were feckless on offense last Monday night against the Browns.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Sep. 2019
  • Caramel can be a feckless thing, a betrayer, so quick to burn.
    — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 24 May 2023
  • If there ever was a job killer proposed by our feckless politicians, this would be right at the top.
    — Chuck Lehmann, sun-sentinel.com, 2 Aug. 2019
  • And so the feckless schemes of the conservatives realized the violent dreams of the Nazis.
    — Timothy Snyder, New York Times, 14 June 2018
  • 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, 28 Nov. 2018
  • The road to 348 is paved with wins like Sunday’s against feckless football teams complicit in their demise.
    — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Oct. 2022
  • In the epilogue, Mofe’s feckless father attempts to saddle him with the care of Blessing, a much younger half brother.
    — Teju Cole, The New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2021
  • If stopping Coriolanus had been left to the feckless and cowardly tribunes, Rome would have gone up in flames.
    — Paul A. Cantor, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2018
  • But their most dangerous hitter, Aaron Judge, has been feckless of late.
    — Brian Costa, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2017
  • Nate is charming but feckless, prone to gambling and hangovers and alley fights.
    — Olivia Waite, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • Fathers of teenage protagonists during the late-’90s-and-early-’00s teen-TV boom were a feckless bunch.
    — Lauren Pinnington, Vulture, 18 June 2021
  • Too often in the modern game the best hitters are rendered feckless by men who throw 10 to 15 pitches every third day.
    — Jack Dickey, SI.com, 2 Nov. 2017
  • Halli, until recently a feckless teen at heart, has to grow up fast.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 6 June 2022
  • The video presents a feckless basketball game, with a group of misfits (the Tigers) pulled from the meme-y Internet recesses facing off against the Sheep . . .
    — Kenzie Bryant, Vanities, 25 Aug. 2017
  • The video presents a feckless basketball game, with a group of misfits (the Tigers) pulled from the meme-y Internet recesses facing off against the Sheep . . .
    — Kenzie Bryant, vanityfair.com, 25 Aug. 2017
  • But the Tigers reverted to their feckless ways, failing to generate much oomph.
    — Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 10 June 2023
  • But the keenest borrowers in Africa are also feckless spenders.
    — The Economist, 8 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • Fox went on a long Instagram rant about how feckless her ex Peter Artemiev was, calling him a deadbeat dad.
    — Vulture, 22 Nov. 2022
  • The only thing worse than a feckless chatbot is a chatbot telling you, with perfect cogence and clarity, to get lost.
    — Mac Schwerin, The Atlantic, 14 June 2023
  • Israel shouldn’t give the enemy more time to use media and feckless Western leaders against it.
    — WSJ, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The Jaguars, feckless on offense all night, did not have a possession end in Ravens territory.
    — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 9 Aug. 2019
  • Far from being weak or feckless, Biden has played a key role in bringing allies together.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 3 Mar. 2022
  • And this isn't new — for months party grandees and big donors have been fretting that with Biden running such a feckless campaign, there isn't a strong not-Sanders campaign to unify around.
    — Ryan Cooper, TheWeek, 17 Jan. 2020
  • The character of Ted gains much of his rugged strength of spirit from his working-class roots, while his antagonist Paul Ivory is a feckless toff.
    — Jo Livingstone, The New Republic, 19 Feb. 2021
  • The script, by Seth Reiss and Will Tracy, has no shortage of broad targets on its dartboard; when have the follies of the rich and feckless not been easy fodder for black comedy?
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 16 Nov. 2022
  • The players must hope that move will not only help in the way it was intended, but also put an end to the public backlash, and to the easy depiction of them as feckless and greedy.
    — New York Times, 4 Apr. 2020
  • The second will be the feckless knaves, who know fully well the void behind the concept, but see an opportunity to make money.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 1 Apr. 2022

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