fecklessness
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
That linguistic timidity —our inability to name what’s happening — is itself a form of complicity, and the result of a combination of fear and fecklessness.
From Salon ● Nov. 13, 2025
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
There has been a lot of talk, undoubtedly accurate in some cases, about the deposed Afghan political and military elite’s fecklessness and lack of will.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 24, 2021
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
