How to Use feckless in a Sentence

feckless

adjective
  • She can't rely on her feckless son.
  • Caramel can be a feckless thing, a betrayer, so quick to burn.
    — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 24 May 2023
  • Or, to put it another way, to make folklore out of the feckless.
    — Hermione Hoby, New York Times, 26 May 2017
  • If there ever was a job killer proposed by our feckless politicians, this would be right at the top.
    — Chuck Lehmann, sun-sentinel.com, 2 Aug. 2019
  • This period is not a golden age — but rather the age of feckless politicians.
    — Willie Wilson, Chicago Tribune, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Halli, until recently a feckless teen at heart, has to grow up fast.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 6 June 2022
  • Nate is charming but feckless, prone to gambling and hangovers and alley fights.
    — Olivia Waite, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The Jets were feckless on offense last Monday night against the Browns.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Sep. 2019
  • But their most dangerous hitter, Aaron Judge, has been feckless of late.
    — Brian Costa, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2017
  • Blaine is not quite as feckless, but Sherman has an ace in the hole in Garfield, who agrees to endorse him in a speech.
    — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2025
  • But the keenest borrowers in Africa are also feckless spenders.
    — The Economist, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Far from being weak or feckless, Biden has played a key role in bringing allies together.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 3 Mar. 2022
  • The incumbent isn’t corrupt, just feckless.
    — Marc Novicoff, The Atlantic, 31 May 2026
  • Those on the receiving end—the weak, feckless losers of the internet—are termed Virgins.
    — Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2026
  • But the Tigers reverted to their feckless ways, failing to generate much oomph.
    — Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 10 June 2023
  • Though Hoichi survives and prospers, his epithet is a clue about which part of his body a feckless monk forgets to paint.
    — Christopher Carroll, The New York Review of Books, 25 May 2021
  • Called on to protect a four-run lead, Soria was rendered feckless without the presence of his best off-speed stuff.
    — Rustin Dodd, kansascity, 16 Aug. 2017
  • Some of her women have children to corral, some are young and feckless, some old and lonely, some young and lonely, some divorced.
    — Madeline Leung Coleman, Vulture, 15 May 2024
  • The only thing worse than a feckless chatbot is a chatbot telling you, with perfect cogence and clarity, to get lost.
    — Mac Schwerin, The Atlantic, 14 June 2023
  • Israel shouldn’t give the enemy more time to use media and feckless Western leaders against it.
    — WSJ, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Kelly, clearly, will keep standing up to these feckless attempts at coercion.
    — Chris Brennan, USA Today, 8 Jan. 2026
  • As Vinayak recounts his family’s history, the men were feckless and the women saved the day.
    — Radha Vatsal june 20, Literary Hub, 20 June 2025
  • Thanks to the ever feckless Mayor De Blasio running away from it.
    — Wsj Staff, WSJ, 14 Feb. 2019
  • If stopping Coriolanus had been left to the feckless and cowardly tribunes, Rome would have gone up in flames.
    — Paul A. Cantor, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2018
  • The road to 348 is paved with wins like Sunday’s against feckless football teams complicit in their demise.
    — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Oct. 2022
  • John Hawkes brings dimension to a feckless cop on True Detective.
    — Joe Reid, Vulture, 25 May 2024
  • And so the feckless schemes of the conservatives realized the violent dreams of the Nazis.
    — Timothy Snyder, New York Times, 14 June 2018
  • The Jaguars, feckless on offense all night, did not have a possession end in Ravens territory.
    — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 9 Aug. 2019
  • The Kings were the league’s third-best team at five-on-five defense, but only seventh in total goals allowed thanks to its feckless special teams.
    — Greg Beacham, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2026
  • Fox went on a long Instagram rant about how feckless her ex Peter Artemiev was, calling him a deadbeat dad.
    — Vulture, 22 Nov. 2022

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