MEANING
Lacking effective effort, reliability, or responsible purpose.
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- feckless behavior
- feckless youth
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His feckless behavior exhausted the household.
The feckless steward lost the accounts again.
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Primary category: literary. Forms: Comparative more feckless; superlative most feckless where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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