Crossword-Solution: FECKLESS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Feckless | a. | Spiritless; weak; worthless. |
We have 16 clues for the answer “FECKLESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| not fit to assume responsibility | 1 answer |
| Irresponsible and ineffectual | 1 answer |
| Unambitious – irresponsible | 1 answer |
| fustian | 20 answers |
| inglorious | 23 answers |
| Incautious | 42 answers |
| Inefficient | 44 answers |
| irresponsible | 47 answers |
| improvident | 49 answers |
| unskilful | 65 answers |
| Inept | 66 answers |
| Inexpert | 69 answers |
| Incompetent | 75 answers |
| Futile | 76 answers |
| Ineffectual | 79 answers |
| Scratch | 90 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATERE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with FECKLESS (5)
Let people try to stop her! She glowered at the rows of feckless bodies that lay sprawled in the chairs.
Besides having a particular aversion to drovers, old M'Gregor had a general “down” on the young Australians whom he comprehensively described as a “feckless, horrse-dealin', horrse-stealin', crawlin' lot o' wretches.” According to him, a native-born would sooner work a horse to death than work for a living any day.
Nasmyth has discarded the feckless hammer with the broken shaft, and assumed for his emblem his own magnificent steam-hammer, at the same time reversing the family motto, which he has converted into "Non Marte sed Arte." James Nasmyth belongs to a family whose genius in art has long been recognised.
Mony a time I have askit mysel’ why witches and warlocks should sell their sauls (whilk are their maist dear possessions) and be auld, duddy, wrunkl’t wives or auld, feckless, doddered men; and then I mind upon Tod Lapraik dancing a’ the hours by his lane in the black glory of his heart.
With this intent, as soon as the breath was out of his body, I sent round for some of the most weighty and best considered of the councillors and elders, and told them that a great trust was, by the death of the minister, placed in our hands, and that, in these times, we ought to do what in us lay to get a shepherd that would gather back to the establishment the flock which had been scattered among the seceders, by the feckless crook and ill-guiding of their former pastor.
Quotes with FECKLESS (3)
Those were her best days, although there was always something feckless about her, something so slack and almost fearful in her too frequent smile, so that when you saw Mignon being happy, you always thought: "It can't last." She had the febrile gaiety of a being without a past, without a present, yet she existed thus, without memory or history, only because her past was too bleak to think of and her future too terrible to contemplate; she was the broken blossom of the present tense.
Taken together, New Labour policies have helped to build a series of overlapping chav caricatures: the feckless, the non-aspirational, the scrounger, the dysfunctional and the disorderly. To hear this sort of rhetoric from Labour, rather than the Tories, has confirmed the stereotypes and prejudices many middle-class people have about working-class communities and individuals. But it can be far subtler than outright attacks. Many of New Labour's underlying philosophies were st…
If a policy is wrongheaded feckless and corrupt I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1982).