feckless

Example Sentences

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In some regards this narrator, a husband and father, is Mr. Lerner’s most mature alter ego, but he often seems like the same schlemiel as the feckless grad student in “Leaving the Atocha Station.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

Ben Duckett can feel unlucky to be bowled by a scuttler from Scott Boland, yet Ollie Pope and Zak Crawley both played feckless drives to be caught and bowled by Michael Neser.

From BBC • Dec. 6, 2025

Your husband won’t join you in therapy if you put pressure on him or threaten him with divorce or tell him that he is feckless if he does not come along.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 9, 2025

Your mileage may vary as to whether Egg Whataboutism is a feckless approach.

From Slate • Jan. 27, 2025

Francisco Pizarro, now governor of Peru, was learning that to avoid outbreaks of feckless violence he needed to keep his men occupied at all times.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann