Definitions

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  • noun the state of being feckless

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  • noun worthlessness due to being feeble and ineffectual

Etymologies

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feckless +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • But the way some people are acting, if we now lose this one it will be seen by the grassroots as just another example of Democratic fecklessness, even Kerry's fecklessness, which is self-defeating and unfair.

    Hullabaloo 2006

  • But the way some people are acting, if we now lose this one it will be seen by the grassroots as just another example of Democratic fecklessness, even Kerry's fecklessness, which is self-defeating and unfair.

    Hullabaloo 2006

  • But the way some people are acting, if we now lose this one it will be seen by the grassroots as just another example of Democratic fecklessness, even Kerry's fecklessness, which is self-defeating and unfair.

    Hullabaloo 2006

  • The fact is someone probably knew this woman was in dire straits and chose to cross the road, to shut their door or tut at her 'fecklessness' over their cornflakes and then turn to the sports page.

    www.mentallyinteresting.org.uk | Pole to Polar: The Secret Life of a Manic Depressive The Secret Life of a Manic Depressive 2010

  • The fact is someone probably knew this woman was in dire straits and chose to cross the road, to shut their door or tut at her 'fecklessness' over their cornflakes and then turn to the sports page.

    www.mentallyinteresting.org.uk | Pole to Polar: The Secret Life of a Manic Depressive The Secret Life of a Manic Depressive 2010

  • This kind of fecklessness is endemic in open-source land.

    Random feeds from Syndic8.com 2009

  • The destruction of Baby P's life is a crime of a wholly different magnitude from the 'fecklessness' that right-wingers denounce among welfare recipients.

    Freemania 2008

  • The destruction of Baby P's life is a crime of a wholly different magnitude from the 'fecklessness' that right-wingers denounce among welfare recipients.

    British Blogs 2008

  • "fecklessness" or Angela Merkel's lack of cooperativeness are hardly the stuff of public protests in a land where issues of life and death dominate the news.

    Breaking News: CBS News 2010

  • 'ONE CITY, GRAY STYLE' -- A classic Jonetta Rose Barras two-fer today, as the Examiner columnist attempts to shoehorn both United Medical Center and the voucher revival together, bound by Gray's fecklessness.

    DeMorning DeBonis: Feb. 22, 2011 2011

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  • It's because I writhed in fecklessness!

    January 3, 2010