as in unsuccessful
not producing the desired result
a well-intentioned but feckless response to the rise in school violence
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Recent Examples of feckless
Many of these new candidates will be ordinary citizens who are fed up with the feckless and do-nothing politics of the Democratic establishment.
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Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2025
The Little Maria controversy did no favors for human-rights activists, either, whom the government liked to paint as feckless—or even as smugglers masquerading as do-gooders.
—Lauren Markham, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
Other governments won’t let the White House reduce them to feckless subordinates.
—Bloomberg Opinion, Twin Cities, 14 Feb. 2025
Meantime, a Congress paralyzed by mutual loathing, divided between feckless Republicans and clueless Democrats, looks on.
—Clive Crook, Twin Cities, 8 Feb. 2025
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Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2025
The Little Maria controversy did no favors for human-rights activists, either, whom the government liked to paint as feckless—or even as smugglers masquerading as do-gooders.
—Lauren Markham, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
Other governments won’t let the White House reduce them to feckless subordinates.
—Bloomberg Opinion, Twin Cities, 14 Feb. 2025
Meantime, a Congress paralyzed by mutual loathing, divided between feckless Republicans and clueless Democrats, looks on.
—Clive Crook, Twin Cities, 8 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for feckless
Adjective
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Each unsuccessful vote will be burned in a furnace with chemicals to dye the plume a black color.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
2 May 2025
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During his unsuccessful 2022 congressional bid, Kent consulted with Nick Fuentes, the young white supremacist, and hired a campaign adviser who was a member of the Proud Boys, a violent far-right group.—
Ali Breland,
The Atlantic,
1 May 2025
Adjective
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Hardware orders in late March reached new records, indicating operators are swapping out inefficient rigs rather than capitulating.—
Dave Birnbaum,
Forbes.com,
21 Apr. 2025
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More importantly, Brunson is coming off a 34-point night in Game 1 despite a rare inefficient shooting night.—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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For a business, a high-speed connection can mean the difference between productive or ineffectual operations, customer satisfaction or abandonment, and ultimately profit or loss.—
Glenn Katz,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
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We’re trapped behind a screen, too, and even more ineffectual at stopping these characters from hurting themselves and each other.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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Some constitutional scholars still maintain that hair-on-fire rhetoric about the demise of the republic is counterproductive.—
Andrew Marantz,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2025
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Peter Ricci, director of the hospitality and tourism management program at Florida Atlantic University’s College of Business, predicted the measure, if passed would be counterproductive.—
David Lyons,
Sun Sentinel,
24 Apr. 2025
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“Feckless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/feckless. Accessed 7 May. 2025.
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