feckless
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Just because he did not put money aside for retirement does not mean he’s financially feckless.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 16, 2026
In film and television, book clubs are portrayed as a way for women to briefly free themselves from the shackles of domestic responsibility, sticky children, feckless husbands.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026
In some regards this narrator, a husband and father, is Mr. Lerner’s most mature alter ego, but he often seems like the same schlemiel as the feckless grad student in “Leaving the Atocha Station.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026
Ben Duckett can feel unlucky to be bowled by a scuttler from Scott Boland, yet Ollie Pope and Zak Crawley both played feckless drives to be caught and bowled by Michael Neser.
From BBC • Dec. 6, 2025
They stayed, stubborn relics of a misplaced childhood, reminding anyone who witnessed his pointless, endless, feckless belligerence, that this man was once a boy.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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