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feckless
PRONUNCIATION:
(FEK-les)
MEANING:
adjective: Weak; ineffective; incompetent; irresponsible.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Scots feck, from effeck, a variant of effect, from Latin efficere (to accomplish), from ef-, a variant of ex- (thoroughly) + facere (to make). Earliest documented use: 1586.
USAGE:
“UK university managers are neither venal nor mendacious, today’s students are no lazier or more feckless than we were, and the vast majority of graduates still find employment suitable to their studies.”
Steven Schwartz; V-Cs, Get Set to Do the Maths; The Times Higher Education Supplement (London, UK); Dec 20, 2012.
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