feckless• The norms of domestic life it set forth drew a clear ideologicalboundary between rational members of society and the feckless.• The spending may have been great but it was not being devoted to thousands upon thousands of undeserving and fecklessclaimants.• Partly, no doubt, the figures include at least some wilful or at least entirely fecklesscredit misusers.• Doubtless, some are fecklessindividuals who could do better but simply don't trouble.• Market forces remain free because of public imagery about the feckless, the idle and the deviant.• a feckless young man
Originfeckless
(1500-1600)Scottish Englishfeck“effect, larger part”, from effect