FECKLESS in a Sentence

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For FECKLESS, below is one of 4 sentences:
Anja took on the responsibility of caring for her aged mother, realizing that her feckless sister was not up to the task.

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 Meanings and Examples of FECKLESS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
feckless
 a.  without skill, ineffective; worthless; lacking purpose
Classic Sentence:
1  An agriculturist of that kind does not like to have to look upon the results of such feckless management as mine.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
2  There was a fecklessness, a lack of symmetry and order in the clouds, as they thinned and thickened.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
Example Sentence:
1  Anja took on the responsibility of caring for her aged mother, realizing that her feckless sister was not up to the task.
2  She's Funny That Way is Bogdanovich's first feature in 13 years, partly bankrolled by his proteges Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach and starring Owen Wilson as a feckless theatre director.