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
Also on the list are the punitive armies of Rome, the fecklessness of Byzantium, Ottoman indifference, and British gunboats.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
