I repeat that my constituent is not a feckless person.
With respect, that is an unnecessarily feckless approach to the problem.
I am happy to give way to useful interventions—but what a feckless, useless and unnecessary intervention!
That is a clear case of the reckless taking the feckless for a ride.
Many parents are feckless, but to what extent should the state step into that gap?
The board provides advice for the parents, who may be feckless, drunks or just incompetent.
In addition to the fraudulent they must, of course, meet the feckless.
Although cunningly couched in euphemisms and evasions, the concept of the 'feckless and fertile' continues to be a central premise in family planning and population studies.