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  • adverb In a feckless manner

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb in a feckless manner; irresponsibly and incompetently
  • adverb with ineptitude; in an incompetent manner

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Examples

  • If either of them had spent his first month in office this fecklessly, the Confederacy would be independent today and the United States would still be mired in the Great Depression.

    Stromata Blog: 2009

  • If either of them had spent his first month in office this fecklessly, the Confederacy would be independent today and the United States would still be mired in the Great Depression.

    Obama Talks. People Listen. Markets Tank. 2009

  • "I helped nurture the creature in its infancy by feeding it great draughts of blood and money; I guided it through its adolescence as it grew fecklessly out of control."

    Bernard Nathanson, abortion provider turned pro-life activist, dies 2011

  • We act as if we were not heirs and witnesses to a blood-soaked history that tells us exactly where this hate some of us so fecklessly stoke will logically, inevitably lead.

    Sunday Reading 2009

  • May they continue to be as fecklessly stupid and dishonest as they have been to date.

    *Third* time on the ACORN Hooker Advisory Train. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009

  • Such madness must be why women succumbed to seduction, racing fecklessly to their ruin.

    Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

  • He was wrong about the war, wrote a book in favor of it, but he agonized as war approached that Bush was entering it fecklessly, without proper planning, without a thoughtful diplomatic component.

    Today in Iraq - Swampland - TIME.com 2008

  • Mr. Robert Loxsleigh had been playing a game for the amusement of his idle friends and fecklessly upset her life.

    Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

  • Zenkevich:  Brushing fecklessly at the forms running merrily over his features, in and out of his nostrils, ears, and mouth.

    IN THE JAWS OF KRONOS 2010

  • Mr. Robert Loxsleigh had been playing a game for the amusement of his idle friends and fecklessly upset her life.

    Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

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