Thesaurus / feckless
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My “artist formerly known as Bill Cosby” thing feels especially feckless and mealymouthed now.
THERE’S SO MUCH MORE TO SAY ABOUT BILL COSBYW. KAMAU BELLJANUARY 20, 2022TIMESome have suggested Garland’s Justice Department wouldn’t pursue those who are most culpable out of misplaced sentiment that such prosecutions would smack of politics, calling the attorney general feckless and the wrong man for the job.
MERRICK GARLAND MUST FOLLOW THROUGH WITH HIS COMMITMENT TO HOLD ALL JANUARY 6 PERPETRATORS ACCOUNTABLEJOYCE WHITE VANCEJANUARY 6, 2022TIMECritics, however, say the process is feckless because any response typically comes days later—meaning the stories have already reached an enormous audience.
FACEBOOK’S NEW TOOL TO STOP FAKE NEWS IS A GAME CHANGER—IF THE COMPANY WOULD ONLY USE ITJEFFOCTOBER 18, 2020FORTUNEI'm a poor black feckless sheep—childer may clem for aught I can do, unless, parson, yo'd help me?'
NORTH AND SOUTHELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELLI will never have seen such a feckless creature of a woman; surely all there was of her would tell her ay or no.
THE WORKS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON - SWANSTON EDITION VOL. 11 (OF 25)ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONMcDonald told me privately that it was 'nae sa bad; a deal better than Pete's feckless bellow.'
DAYS OFFHENRY VAN DYKEI'll ne'er fash mysell, nor lose my liking for sae feckless a matter as a nine days' clash.
ROB ROY, COMPLETE, ILLUSTRATEDSIR WALTER SCOTTThe feckless babblers sit upon the strange egg until it gives forth its living contents.
JUNGLE FOLKDOUGLAS DEWARPoor feckless father, how she had loved him spite all his rollicking ways, or perhaps because of them.
THE GREY WIG: STORIES AND NOVELETTESISRAEL ZANGWILLThe blunt Scotch handmaiden could not abide mena puir-hearted, feckless lot, as she was wont to say.
WEE WIFIEROSA NOUCHETTE CAREYWORDS RELATED TO FECKLESS
- abortive
- bootless
- counterproductive
- disadvantageous
- dysfunctional
- expendable
- feckless
- fruitless
- futile
- good-for-nothing
- hopeless
- idle
- impracticable
- impractical
- incompetent
- ineffective
- ineffectual
- inept
- inoperative
- meaningless
- no good
- nonfunctional
- of no use
- pointless
- profitless
- purposeless
- scrap
- stupid
- unavailable
- unavailing
- unfunctional
- unproductive
- unprofitable
- unpurposed
- unusable
- unusuable
- unworkable
- vain
- valueless
- waste
- weak
- worthless
- absurd
- aimless
- blank
- doesn't cut it
- double-talk
- doublespeak
- empty
- feckless
- fustian
- futile
- good-for-nothing
- hollow
- hot air
- inane
- inconsequential
- insignificant
- insubstantial
- nonsensical
- nothing
- nugatory
- pointless
- purportless
- purposeless
- senseless
- trifling
- trivial
- unimportant
- unmeaning
- unpurposed
- useless
- vacant
- vague
- vain
- valueless
- vapid
- worthless
- abortive
- anticlimactic
- barren
- bootless
- defeasible
- emasculate
- feckless
- feeble
- forceless
- fruitless
- futile
- idle
- impotent
- inadequate
- incompetent
- indecisive
- ineffectual
- inefficacious
- inefficient
- inept
- inferior
- innocuous
- inoperative
- lame
- limited
- neutralized
- no go
- no way
- not effective
- nugatory
- null
- paltry
- powerless
- slack-spined
- spineless
- unable
- unavailable
- unavailing
- unfruitful
- unproductive
- unprofitable
- unsuccessful
- vain
- void
- withered
- worthless
- abortive
- anticlimactic
- barren
- bootless
- defeasible
- feckless
- feeble
- forceless
- fruitless
- futile
- idle
- impotent
- inadequate
- incompetent
- indecisive
- inefficacious
- inefficient
- inept
- inferior
- innocuous
- inoperative
- invertebrate
- lame
- limited
- neutralized
- nugatory
- null
- null and void
- paltry
- powerless
- spineless
- unable
- unavailing
- unfruitful
- unproductive
- unprofitable
- unsuccessful
- vain
- void
- withered
- worthless
- abortive
- anticlimactic
- barren
- bootless
- defeasible
- emasculate
- feckless
- feeble
- forceless
- fruitless
- futile
- idle
- impotent
- inadequate
- incompetent
- indecisive
- ineffectual
- inefficacious
- inefficient
- inept
- inferior
- innocuous
- inoperative
- lame
- limited
- neutralized
- no go
- no way
- not effective
- nugatory
- null
- paltry
- powerless
- slack-spined
- spineless
- unable
- unavailable
- unavailing
- unfruitful
- unproductive
- unprofitable
- unsuccessful
- vain
- void
- withered
- worthless
- abortive
- anticlimactic
- barren
- bootless
- defeasible
- feckless
- feeble
- forceless
- fruitless
- futile
- idle
- impotent
- inadequate
- incompetent
- indecisive
- inefficacious
- inefficient
- inept
- inferior
- innocuous
- inoperative
- invertebrate
- lame
- limited
- neutralized
- nugatory
- null
- null and void
- paltry
- powerless
- spineless
- unable
- unavailing
- unfruitful
- unproductive
- unprofitable
- unsuccessful
- vain
- void
- withered
- worthless
- aimless
- designless
- desultory
- drifting
- empty
- feckless
- floundering
- fustian
- goalless
- good-for-nothing
- haphazard
- hit-or-miss
- indiscriminate
- irregular
- meaningless
- motiveless
- needless
- nonsensical
- pointless
- purportless
- random
- senseless
- uncalled for
- undirected
- unhelpful
- unnecessary
- unplanned
- unprofitable
- unpurposed
- vacuous
- wanton
- worthless
- adventuresome
- adventurous
- any which way
- audacious
- brash
- breakneck
- carefree
- careless
- daredevil
- daring
- desperate
- devil-may-care
- fast and loose
- feckless
- foolhardy
- harebrained
- hasty
- headlong
- heedless
- helter-skelter
- hopeless
- hotheaded
- ill-advised
- imprudent
- inattentive
- incautious
- inconsiderate
- indiscreet
- kooky
- madcap
- mindless
- negligent
- overventuresome
- playing with fire
- precipitate
- rash
- regardless
- temerarious
- thoughtless
- uncareful
- venturesome
- venturous
- wild
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