Thesaurus / feckless
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
Critics, however, say the process is feckless because any response typically comes days later—meaning the stories have already reached an enormous audience.
I'm a poor black feckless sheep—childer may clem for aught I can do, unless, parson, yo'd help me?'
NORTH AND SOUTHELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELL
I 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 STEVENSON
McDonald told me privately that it was 'nae sa bad; a deal better than Pete's feckless bellow.'
DAYS OFFHENRY VAN DYKE
I'll ne'er fash mysell, nor lose my liking for sae feckless a matter as a nine days' clash.
ROB ROY, COMPLETE, ILLUSTRATEDSIR WALTER SCOTT
The feckless babblers sit upon the strange egg until it gives forth its living contents.
JUNGLE FOLKDOUGLAS DEWAR
Poor feckless father, how she had loved him spite all his rollicking ways, or perhaps because of them.
THE GREY WIG: STORIES AND NOVELETTESISRAEL ZANGWILL
The blunt Scotch handmaiden could not abide mena puir-hearted, feckless lot, as she was wont to say.
WEE WIFIEROSA NOUCHETTE CAREY
This feckless hairy oubit cam' hirpling by the linn, A swirl o' wind cam' doun the glen, and blew that oubit in.
THE BOOK OF HUMOROUS VERSEVARIOUS
Feckless, a common Scottish word, was hardly literary English before Carlyle.
THE ROMANCE OF WORDS (4TH ED.)ERNEST WEEKLEY
WORDS 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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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