How to Use feckless in a Sentence

feckless

adjective
  • She can't rely on her feckless son.
  • Biden should step aside With his feckless firehose of lies and distortions, Trump did not win the debate, but Biden’s performance was catastrophic.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 1 July 2024
  • The Jets were feckless on offense last Monday night against the Browns.
    BostonGlobe.com, 22 Sep. 2019
  • Or, to put it another way, to make folklore out of the feckless.
    Hermione Hoby, New York Times, 26 May 2017
  • 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
  • The heir to a hotel-and-movie franchise, the feckless David Schine had reportedly pulled D’s in his first year at Harvard.
    Marie Brenner, The Hive, 4 July 2017
  • Called on to protect a four-run lead, Soria was rendered feckless without the presence of his best off-speed stuff.
    Rustin Dodd, kansascity, 16 Aug. 2017
  • 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, vanityfair.com, 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, Vanities, 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
  • John Hawkes brings dimension to a feckless cop on True Detective.
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 25 May 2024
  • 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
  • The liberal-arts college in Boston is facing the consequences of its feckless response to student protests.
    Matthew X. Wilson, National Review, 20 June 2024

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