feckless
feck·less
adjective
1.
not fit to assume responsibility
2.
generally incompetent and ineffectual
- “feckless attempts to repair the plumbing”
- “inept handling of the account”
Origin
From Scots feckless, variant of Scots fectless (“ineffectual”) (an aphetic variant of effectless), equivalent to effect + -less.
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