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fecklessness

/fek-lis/US // ˈfɛk lɪs //UK // (ˈfɛklɪs) //

无足轻重,无精打采,无所事事,无精打采的

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : ineffective; incompetent; futile: feckless attempts to repair the plumbing.
    • : having no sense of responsibility; indifferent; lazy.

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Examples

  • Critics, however, say the process is feckless because any response typically comes days later—meaning the stories have already reached an enormous audience.

  • Still, the video is a reminder of how feckless U.S. efforts to free American hostages have become.

  • This disdain stems from anger at intrusive Congressional action and feckless Congressional inaction.

  • In contrast to the feckless Iraqi commanders who fled Mosul, these Iranian forces are disciplined, motivated, and ruthless.

  • Strategic recklessness aside, the chief problem with the plan was that it needed a weak, feckless opposition.

  • And this, in turn, is exactly what makes Obama's failure to take decisive action amid Egypt's crisis all the more feckless.

  • I'm a poor black feckless sheep—childer may clem for aught I can do, unless, parson, yo'd help me?'

  • I will never have seen such a feckless creature of a woman; surely all there was of her would tell her ay or no.

  • McDonald told me privately that it was 'nae sa bad; a deal better than Pete's feckless bellow.'

  • I'll ne'er fash mysell, nor lose my liking for sae feckless a matter as a nine days' clash.

  • The feckless babblers sit upon the strange egg until it gives forth its living contents.