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Word entry · 8 letters

feckless

Best crossword clue

"Lacking drive"

8 letters · collected on this word page

8 lettersPronunciation /ˈfɛkləs/Part of speech adjectiveSorted ceefklssStarts with FEnds with S1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. generally incompetent and ineffectual

Word origin

From Scots feckless, variant of Scots fectless (“ineffectual”) (an aphetic variant of effectless), equivalent to effect + -less.

Used in a sentence

  • China is “proving to be a feckless friend for its authoritarian allies,” Nicholas Burns, the U.S. ambassador to China under President Joe Biden, wrote on X.

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