as in unsuccessful
not producing the desired result
a well-intentioned but feckless response to the rise in school violence
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Recent Examples of feckless
Their corrupt and incompetent government and feckless international institutions have been totally unable to protect them.
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Newsweek Contributors, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
Indeed, when feckless opinions driven by ideology become the basis for crafting laws and policies, everyone suffers.
—Sheldon Jacobson, Twin Cities, 25 Sep. 2025
On a good day, the Undervale houses maybe two living human guests and at least a couple dozen haunts of all demographics, time periods and modes of death — including the brother Katherine inherited it all from, the cheerfully feckless Nathan (Will Forte).
—Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 19 Sep. 2025
This article is not useful to most of us, because 90% of towns and cities in this country are locked into a single ISP, effectively local monopolies legitimized by the feckless FCC, Congress, and state legislatures.
—Michael Lydick, PC Magazine, 9 Aug. 2025
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Despite several attempts to identify the man, officials were unsuccessful.—
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Emilio’s father then drove around the area to find his son, but was unsuccessful, per the database.—
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Willingly taking back an inefficient contract from a contender, even if that contract has term involved, is just a more extreme application of this basic logic.—
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In processes like this, any loss of carbon as carbon dioxide is a key sign that the underlying process is inefficient.—
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Their lack of insight into their adversaries’ intelligence capability makes these militiamen demonstrably ineffectual at halting intelligence breaches.—
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In 2022, after a period of relative quiet, the M23 began clashing with the Congolese Army, a corrupt and largely ineffectual force.—
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Short-term fixes alone are unlikely to address the root causes of affordability and, if misguided, could even prove counterproductive.—
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Swart warned the street unrest is actively counterproductive.—
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“Feckless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/feckless. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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