Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. the state of being feckless
WordNet 3.0
- n. worthlessness due to being feeble and ineffectual
Etymologies
- feckless + -ness (Wiktionary)
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.”
“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.”
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“This kind of fecklessness is endemic in open-source land.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Books and articles by the hundred have pointed to Rapa Nui as the inevitable result of uncontrolled population growth, squandered resources and human fecklessness.”
“That and fecklessness in foreign policy did him in.”
“This is LBJ mind you, Clinton and Carter were subjected to an order of magnitude more Dem fecklessness.”
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“And as if to prove the point about Senate fecklessness, he carved out time yesterday to force a meaningless floor vote on Mr. Ryan's budget, which failed 40-57.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fecklessness’.
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Monovocalics
Words that have only one of the vowels. On this list I include only words with at least three vowels. When I first started the list, if a word had several forms, I generally listed only the one wit...
syzygy, mirific, cumulus, homolog, monocot, bedewed, jezebel, referee, bikini, minikin, locomotor, terebenthene and 2359 more...
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New GRE Preparation List
All the words which I encounter during my GRE studies. :)
rhetoric, errant, arrant, artless, artful, ephemeral, libel, rhapsody, cloy, conjecture, relegate, aberrant and 927 more...
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Words people had looked up from the N...
On June 16, 2009, Philip B. Corbett, in his After Deadline column "Big, Fancy Words," shared a list of the words most frequently looked up by readers of NYTimes.com.
fecklessness, glut, appurtenances, contretemps, phlogiston, bonobo, recondite, fungible, peroration, bildungsroman, neologisms, apoplectic and 38 more...
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EAD
Just some random words that speak to me
fecklessness, malarky, absurd, quashed, hyperbole, woebegone, peripatetic, somber, sisyphean, bane, intolerance, bogus and 65 more...
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mattbucher's Words
fecklessness, mollycoddle, nightshade, cold spring harbor, katwijk aan zee, merkur xr4ti, catafalque, prosaic, poultice, Benthic, amandine, brassard and 16 more...
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January List
outlier, corvette, hagiography, solipsist, fecklessness, insouciance, bereft, salvific
Tweets
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mabool It's because I writhed in fecklessness! Jan 3, 2010