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feckless Adjective irresponsible and lacking character and determination: her feckless brother was always in debt [obsolete feck value, effect]
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feckless adjective irresponsible, useless, hopeless, incompetent, feeble, worthless, futile, ineffectual, aimless, good-for-nothing, shiftless, weak Translations |
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If ye miss that, ye must be as feckless at the sailoring as I have found ye at the fighting. I made a drink-offering to all the dead, first with honey and milk, then with wine, and thirdly with water, and I sprinkled white barley meal over the whole, praying earnestly to the poor feckless ghosts, and promising them that when I got back to Ithaca I would sacrifice a barren heifer for them, the best I had, and would load the pyre with good things. Perhaps this lad's mother also was a feckless old woman, and devoid of character? |
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