feckless

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I got permission to go three hours after Kruger's message came You are only feckless--only feckless, as the Scotch say," she rejoined with testy sadness.

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  1. adjective Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
  2. adjective Careless and irresponsible.

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  • That a narcissistic, feckless, arrogant jerk, with absolutely NOTHING inside, could have taken in so many is almost beyond comprehension. —  Stop The ACLU
  • Pylon were affectless and feckless, and you can listen to their music over and over and never get a clue as to where they are getting it all from. —  Boston Phoenix - thePhoenix.com
  • Obama would have been called every name in that book: "feckless," "weak," "naive," —  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines
  • I wrote about a feckless* .30 / 06 that would not shoot consistently, and how I sent it on down the road because there are rifles out there that do have feck* and why should I aggravate myself at this late date? —  Field & Stream -
  • There is no better poster-child for the feckless, heedless, selfish evil embodied in our elites than Jamie Gorelick. —  Latest Articles
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Scots feck, effect (alteration of effect) + -less.

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  1. Scots, from feck + -less; = English effectless.
 

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/ˈfɛklɛs/
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