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单词 feckless
释义 feck·less
\-klə̇s\ adjective
Etymology: feck + -less
1.
 a. : weak in mind or body : helpless, incompetent
  < a pretty, feckless little widow who is not very good at “managing” — New Statesman & Nation >
 b. : inefficient
  < a day of feckless house heating >
2. : having no real worth or purpose : meaningless, purposeless
 < a feckless figurehead >
 < what strikes most at first, frequently turns out to be feckless — Amy Lowell >
 < three years of feckless negotiations — Time >
3.
 a. : lazy and worthless
  < here were failure and defeat visiting the energetic along with the feckless, the able along with the unable — F.L.Allen >
 b. : indifferent to responsibility : unreliable
4. : awkward and unskilled
5. : unthinking, irresponsible
 < a certain childish, feckless gaiety >
6. : impractical and shiftless
 < he was feckless, a gambler, a lover of what is called low company, but he was generous — Robert Lynd >
feck·less·ly adverb
feck·less·ness noun -es
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