Posted on 03/08/2010 5:08:26 AM PST by xsmommy
Word For The Day, Monday, 3/8/10
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
feckless; adj.
1. ineffective; incompetent; futile: feckless attempts to repair the plumbing. 2. having no sense of responsibility; indifferent; lazy.
Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
Careless and irresponsible.
Etymology: 1590s, from feck, "effect, value, vigor" (late 15c.), Scottish shortened form of effect; popularized by Carlyle, who left its opposite, feckful, in dialectal obscurity.
Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Both, apparently!
More Substance . . . . Less Feck
Joe is a little dumber, Barry a shade more ruthless. (Am I allowed to say “shade?”)
Being German, my skin is clear and without feckles, which makes me rather feckless.
while I was back in my hometown last week, which is in massa’s district, I heard he was fired from his corporate job for being incompetent.
I have no sympathy, as whoever comes from that district will be conservative, whether dem or pubbie. massa turned the tide in his favor over his opponent by showing a pic of him in the back of a limo with GW just before election day.
my dear walmart-hating liberal dem SIL actually worked to elect massa....he is her HERO. (sigh)
God bless you both. What an ordeal.
xsgirls and i went yesterday. i saw smallish kids in there and wondered if they would like it. it’s really not a kids movie done this way, is it? we liked it.
That’s beautiful.
both! A+++
LOL!!! A++++
LMAO!!!
We’re going today since it’s a teacher inservice day. I cannot wait!
A+++ lots of jimmy carter taglines going round, apparently, LOL!
do you recommend it though? for what ages?
with my eye kind of swollen shut i thought that was bien PISSANTS... ; o A+++
The 3D format kinda freaked the little one out a tad....
OK.....here is a feckless attempt at writing a song...I am aweswome.....met all my friends on line....I am awesome....sexy like John McCain....blah, blah....very funny song!
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