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adjective

feckless

not fit to assume responsibility

In a sentence

Six example sentences with feckless, each labelled with its topic.

  • The play's feckless younger brother loses the ferry tickets, the map, and finally the inheritance in three quick acts.

    Literature

  • A feckless manager let the audit deadline pass twice, then blamed a calendar invite nobody could find afterward.

    Business

  • Voters called the council feckless after three winters of unplowed streets and a snow budget spent by January.

    Politics

  • The comedy's feckless uncle is left in charge of the shop for one afternoon and manages to lose the keys twice.

    Movies

  • Contemporaries called the young king feckless, since he let ministers run the treasury while he hunted.

    History

  • Investors pulled out when the feckless cofounder missed a third board meeting and could not say where the money went.

    Startups

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