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
The feedback that might customarily be provided by a fellow human is bound to be muddled with all kinds of feckless improprieties.
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Lance Eliot, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
In the wake of World War II, the charge was that feckless bureaucrats served Soviet masters.
—Colin Gordon, The Conversation, 3 Feb. 2025
The League of Nations proved feckless as the great powers turned to autarky and protectionism in the 1920s and 1930s, fomenting the nationalism that drove the autocratic regimes in Germany, Italy, and Japan to war.
—Michael Brenes, Foreign Affairs, 28 Jan. 2025
Other governments won’t let the White House reduce them to feckless subordinates.
—Bloomberg Opinion, Twin Cities, 14 Feb. 2025
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Lance Eliot, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
In the wake of World War II, the charge was that feckless bureaucrats served Soviet masters.
—Colin Gordon, The Conversation, 3 Feb. 2025
The League of Nations proved feckless as the great powers turned to autarky and protectionism in the 1920s and 1930s, fomenting the nationalism that drove the autocratic regimes in Germany, Italy, and Japan to war.
—Michael Brenes, Foreign Affairs, 28 Jan. 2025
Other governments won’t let the White House reduce them to feckless subordinates.
—Bloomberg Opinion, Twin Cities, 14 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for feckless
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Last May, students barricaded themselves inside the building—after dedicating it to the famed Palestinian painter who died in 2024 following unsuccessful appeals for a medical evacuation from Gaza— amid a rising wave of pro-Palestine demonstrations on college campuses across the United States.—
Tessa Solomon,
ARTnews.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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Nonetheless, Punk had two very unsuccessful, farcical moments in the Octagon, so there could be some credence to Paul’s thought that White wanted nothing else to do with a crossover fight from a WWE Superstar.—
Brian Mazique,
Forbes.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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The first generation of Ukrainian fiber-optic FPVs was awkward and inefficient in design—and potentially too bulky to maneuver through a building.—
David Axe,
Forbes.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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Put simply, the traditional mailroom is inefficient and a liability.—
Chris Gallagher,
USA Today,
28 Mar. 2025
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Their newly single mother went off for a year to train as a mountain guide, leaving the girls with their gentle, ineffectual hippie father.—
Leslie Camhi,
New Yorker,
4 Apr. 2025
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At the center of the film is Mikal’s relationship with his mother, while Jason is more a peripheral figure, an ineffectual referee between two warring parties, managing to negotiate only temporary truces.—
Murtada Elfadl,
Variety,
30 Mar. 2025
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Now, a new study may shed light on why consuming too much of the artificial sweetener sucralose could be counterproductive.—
Sandee LaMotte,
CNN Money,
29 Mar. 2025
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Fighting this foreign free riding is critically important -- but not all methods are equally effective, and some reforms under consideration may even be counterproductive.—
Tomas J. Philipson,
National Review,
27 Mar. 2025
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“Feckless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/feckless. Accessed 10 Apr. 2025.
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