How To Use Feckless In A Sentence
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A tremor goes through me when I hear a sententious TV commentator raise the topic, because they always finish up by talking about the ‘anomaly’ that even the most feckless natural parent is allowed to breed.
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What a metaphor for the damage done by lard-rich, time-poor, environmentally feckless modern lifestyles.
Times, Sunday Times
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She's unproductive and pointless, feckless and meaningless, she's a garbagy, no good, valueless trash deposit.
Archive 2007-01-01
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Giving complete novices the responsibility for reviving a feckless football team would, in itself, be irresponsible.
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He was portrayed as a feckless drunk.
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I'm reminded of those advertisements for the national lottery depicting an airhead, a feckless character, with the warning that, if we don't play, the winner could end up being that same character.
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The strength of female characterisation is a joy - though not extended to the men, who appear merely as feckless one-dimensional sex objects.
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Neil Labute has a reckless, bordering on feckless, talent as a writer and provocateur, taking as much pleasure burrowing into messy sex lives as a toddler with a toy spade into a sandlot.
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He uses the word feckless in the snippet being played!
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The males stand about in feckless groups until picked by a girl, who takes a pebble and drops it wherever she requires her beaux to dig a burrow.
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Britain's 11 million pensioners punch above their weight because - unlike the feckless young - they still retain the habit of voting, and many of them vote Tory.
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The norms of domestic life it set forth drew a clear ideological boundary between rational members of society and the feckless.
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Evil Eve made all sorts of feckless charges against Rebecca Groppe but the people saw through the dirty politics and dismissed the double-dipper. link
Enquirer Anti-Mallory Bias
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For Marie Antoinette, as for Diana, it was a no-win situation, not helped by the fact that she and her feckless husband had difficulty in producing all-important heirs.
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There are fibbers, fabricators and feckless fabulists.
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The truly unforgettable performance comes from Lisa Eichhorn as Cutter's abused and defeated, hollow-eyed alcoholic wife Mo, the soul of the movie, delivering, in her thin, cracked voice, such vicious putdowns as to feckless rent-boy Bone Home so early, Rich?
Cutter's Way is a cinematic masterpiece
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But Pete has concealed the job from everyone, especially his overanxious mother, who regards the city as a dangerous place that swallows up feckless visitors like Pete's father, who is absent or dead.
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The show takes its strength from Clark's ability to come up with great comic observations about the nature of feckless young blokedom, and his live show features plenty more of the same.
This week's new live comedy
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The company's line was that it was putting on a music show and doing everything reasonable, and a bit more, to protect feckless people from themselves.
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There are fibbers, fabricators and feckless fabulists.
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The actress is as irritating as she is perfect in the role of feckless and blowsy Kathy who loses her house after a mix up with local taxes.
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She had lost the fecklessness of youth and settled down.
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Had you called him indolent or useless he had smiled, but "daidlin ', thowless, feckless, fushionless wratch," drew blood at every stroke, like a Russian knout.
Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush
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Thus begins another skirmish in Devinsky's long-standing war on the fecklessness of youth, their natural tendency to forget their medication, stay up all night working on a term paper and propel themselves into a hypernormal state by swilling vodka or cough medicine.
In the Grip of the Unknown
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Honest Mop’s report crimes but we are hamstrung by the less well intended who make false reports to upgrade their mobile phones, cant sort out their lives/family problems themselves and overindulge in feckless drink and drug binges, seek crime numbers for ’stolen’ DSS payments or ‘criminally damaged’ windows that they broke themsleves.
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So, not only are the students feckless, lazy, promiscuous and drunk, they're also liars.
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It is also intended, no doubt, to contrast British efficiency and moral fibre with Spanish and Portuguese fecklessness.
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Many were running away from hostile or feckless parents - unloving stepmothers and drunken fathers feature in several reminiscences - or from the prospect of onshore unemployment.
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It's also clear that those of us who continued to live the old-fashioned way are to be punished by the majority for our quaint adherence to that creed -- while the feckless, the dim, the improvident and the greedy are featherbedded until the rest of us run out of money.
John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the...
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The prodigal ex-hippie who returns to an Essex village after blagging his way through eight years on the scrounge is still as charming and feckless as ever.
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In one of those stupidities that mark a life of bad choices, a quite verbal, witty, but somewhat feckless woman became my business partner.
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She heard herself mentally repeating all the things Moira said about feckless youth.
AN OLDER WOMAN
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I attempted to explain the semiotics of George of the Jungle, feckless would-be Tarzan, for ever crashing into the nearest tree.
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His general improvidence and fecklessness kept his wife and family in perennially exigent financial circumstances, and his lawyers and accountants in a state bordering on despair.
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German banks lent hand over fist to feckless foreign borrowers.
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These images reveal, without authorial commentary, the mixture of earnestness and fecklessness, solemnity and comedy that marks the typical contemporary parade.
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The youth of all lands are idle and feckless, which is why twelve-of-the-best, administered with a cane, whip or Prozac is a part of all cultures, from eastest-East to westest-West.
Archive 2005-06-01
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Neither could the Bosnian Serbs -- whose brinkman-ship has repeatedly reduced the mighty Western Alliance to feckless threats and weak reprisals.
Make War, Make Peace
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All it did was make life easier for the lazy and feckless middle-class students, who were one of the products of the 1960s.
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At 21, Caroline took up with a feckless playboy 17 years her senior.
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They are quite likely to see right through you and your feckless ways, like Saffy in Absolutely Fabulous withering Edina and Patsy with her magnificently polished disdain.
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To prove his point, the editor, a young, feckless fellow, asked me to write an upbeat, optimistic birthday column, saying how things had improved in the dale this past decade.
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The shift to public ownership also replaced the accountability of partnerships—when there are no profits, there are no partner bonuses—with the dangerous fecklessness of public boards.
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He commissions his three sons, two of them untrustworthy and feckless, the third brave and honest, to go and find the bird and return it to him.
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It's striking that the fecklessness of the United Nations and the treachery of the French draw so many yawns from establishment commentators and politicians.
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But, even taking into account the feckless expediency of his "get out now" rhetoric, Obama has shown a more sophisticated strategic intelligence than McCain has (and Hillary Clinton has, too) ... and no amount of bluster from the McCain camp can change that.
McCain’s Sunni Shi’ites - Swampland - TIME.com
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Aidan Gillen is completely convincing as Frank, a set designer for television who is trying to negotiate the transition from feckless student existence to adult responsibility, complete with mortgage and steady girlfriend.
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'For the young laird -- a feckless, ugsome, sickly wean he was, puir laddie -- a knight cam by, an' behoved to take him to the King.
The Caged Lion
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His feckless mother left him with her family in Denbighshire when he was still an infant, and his uncles paid a couple to care for him until he was six years old.
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Whatever happened to the traditional, feckless student?
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This is the Balkan - a florilegium of contradictions within contraventions, the mawkish and the jaded, the charitable and the deleterious, the feckless and the bumptious, evanescent and exotic,
Terrorists and Freedom Fighters
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Sometimes we fail simply because we are poor, dumb, fallible, feckless human beings whose best-laid schemes gang aft agley.
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So the older brother became a rather feckless Oxford undergraduate just about to begin his own career.
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One is made up largely of deprived and feckless girls while the other is dominated by highly educated and successful career women.
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She may be a feckless and incompetent parent, but that is no reason for her not being treated properly.
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Matthews also writes that in middle school he had “an incipient though feckless concernment with the opposite sex.”
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Feckless Andy, late for his former teacher's funeral, sidles into the wrong chapel at Richmond crematorium and finds himself at the sparsely attended exequies of one Christopher Madigan.
Angelina Jolie Biography, Gary Shteyngart's 'Super Sad True Love Story': Book Review Roundup
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I was a feckless young man, without direction, commonsense, or gumption.
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For a younger more feckless child this kind of behaviour might be acceptable, but he was too old to be still in his pyjamas in the street.
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AMERICAN POLICY INthe Balkans through the first half of the 1990s can only be described as feckless.
Sands of Empire
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Maybe their feckless mothers waste money smoking and drinking?
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Everyone knows who the scumbags are and until the police stop trying to be all things to all people and go back to unashamedly harassing the felons and the feckless we WILL all go hell in a handcart. on October 2, 2009 at 7: 28 pm | Reply Christopher Chantrill
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He was an auld, doddering man, a maffling, feckless auld doit.
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They are like wives midway through marriage therapy designed to reconcile and foster a new beginning with a feckless husband who has perpetually let them down.
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Yet still the broadcasting companies swallowed the government line, and there was a sudden demand for a different sort of political programme, one that would engage the feckless viewer - and especially the young feckless viewer.
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Carl leaned forward, so he was nose to nose with the weedy, feckless man.
THE LAST PLACE
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KELEMEN: What McCain called a feckless agreement, the Turks see as a starting point for a diplomatic way out of the dispute over Iran's suspect nuclear program.
Turkey Offers U.S. A Diplomatic Channel To Iran
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The norms of domestic life it set forth drew a clear ideological boundary between rational members of society and the feckless.
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The norms of domestic life it set forth drew a clear ideological boundary between rational members of society and the feckless.
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As for when to call it feckless, I don't look past the first box of ammo.
A Brief Guide to Feckless* Rifles
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The man who wants everyone - thats everyone not just some workshy feckless scrounger who has been unemployed for fifteen years - aka a miner shafter from the first time around - to work for their dole.
The Guardian World News
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feckless attempts to repair the plumbing
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Most of the residents of Oaxaca live in hovels with inadequate social services and the powers-that-be only care about the feckless tourists and expats that come and go and do nothing for this city except eat its lunch.
36 hours in Oaxaca (NYTimes)
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So, instead of biting the bullet and knocking out realistically unsustainable channels, with the exception of ITV2+1 which was KO'ed, they carry on regardless squandering more money on feckless retards who know f'ck-all about real life but have pieces of paper stuck on the wall above their desk (or really know how to retrieve a thrupenny bit
Army Rumour Service
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With these vague and imponderable concerns behind us, we may return to the main line of our story refreshed and unburdened of all such feckless speculation.
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A wud tell the daidlin ', thowless, feckless, fushionless wratch o'
Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush
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My solutions: Compulsory sterilisation of the criminal and feckless classes (using a three strikes and out policy for any offences other than motoring), no welfare BUT workfare for the fit and healthy (being a fat knacker is not an excuse as regular work and exercise will have a beneficial effect), combined with regular drug testing.
Easy Come, Easy Go! Geddit? « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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But only the most blinkered soul could fail to see that the football team were as inexperienced as they were feckless, as bereft of defensive qualities as they were deficient technically.
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Of all the operas that end in personal tragedy, none is more heartbreaking than the story of a Japanese geisha who renounces her native culture for the love of a feckless American sailor.
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Middle-aged people, already in a state of despair about the fecklessness of the young, will find the activities of the grey and toothless equally distressing.
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Dearest Glenda Becky, those who practice hara-kiri use swords, not knives you feckless fcuking degenerate MORON.
Think Progress » Glenn Beck: ‘There aren’t enough knives’ for ‘dishonored’ climate scientists to kill themselves.
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It is also intended, no doubt, to contrast British efficiency and moral fibre with Spanish and Portuguese fecklessness.
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For a government that prides itself on pragmatism and prudence, this is a policy that astonishes in its fecklessness and recklessness.
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Had you called him indolent or useless he had smiled, but "daidlin ', thowless, feckless, fushionless wratch," drew blood at every stroke, like a Russian knout.
Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush
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Born in an American Stalinist medical facility**** to foreign parents, he spent his early years nomadically, drifting from country to country***** as his feckless father moved the family in search of lasting employment******.
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As a means of combating such fecklessness, however, the crackdown is worse than useless.
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Even when gambling became above board in the eyes of the law, it was still frowned upon as either the pastime of high-rolling decadent playboys or the ruin of feckless working-class punters.
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This feckless hairy oubit cam 'hirpling by the linn,
The Book of Humorous Verse
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Who are these feckless, irresponsible moochers using bankruptcy to avoid paying legitimate debts?
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His sons are feckless dandies, incapable of working for a living.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Many were running away from hostile or feckless parents - unloving stepmothers and drunken fathers feature in several reminiscences - or from the prospect of onshore unemployment.
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In 2010, the themes were Tiger Woods's feckless efforts to rebound from scandal, Dustin Johnson's final-round botches in two majors, and the U.S. Ryder Cup team's disappointing loss in Wales.
Why 2011 Was a Good Year for Golf
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The norms of domestic life it set forth drew a clear ideological boundary between rational members of society and the feckless.
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Half a lifetime later and Brian Aldiss remains in Oxford, quite happy to see out his winter years in a leafy suburb of the city he first came to as a feckless war veteran in a demob suit.
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Had Gloucester not been so fecklessly led on by his 'Pillicock', there would have been no conception, and so none of the murderous familial world that ensued.
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Instead, the feckless British Parliament is off on an 80-day holiday and the new laws will have to wait until spring 2006 before they become operable.