fecklessness

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Mr. Chanler-Berat brings a sad sense of insecurity to Evgeny, particularly in the scenes when he addresses his father—who remains unseen—abjectly trying to justify his fecklessness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

The fecklessness of McCarthy has been well chronicled, and a further accounting needn’t go on at length.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 7, 2023

Hank has failed upward throughout the show, and his fecklessness has, in a very real way, saved his life a couple of times.

From Salon • Jun. 13, 2022

Galgut, our reviewer, Rand Richards Cooper, wrote, “is a gleeful satirist, mordantly skewering his characters’ fecklessness and hypocrisy.”

From New York Times • Mar. 25, 2022

Also on the list are the punitive armies of Rome, the fecklessness of Byzantium, Ottoman indifference, and British gunboats.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro