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

A review of “The Promise” in The New York Times Book Review called Galgut “a gleeful satirist, mordantly skewering his characters’ fecklessness and hypocrisy.”

From New York Times • Nov. 3, 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