Word: feckless
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...Whose principal duty is to trudge from house to house peddling small policies and collecting 10?, 25? or 50? a week from a clientele too poor or too feckless to pay by the year." (The underlining is mine...
...Three in industrial insurance. Prudential and John Hancock, set out to enroll the companies' 53,000 industrial agents, whose principal duty is to trudge from house to house, peddling small policies and collecting 10? 25?, or 50? a week from a clientele too poor or too feckless to pay by the year...
...solemn Whig lad, David Balfour of Shaws, 14-year-old Freddie Bartholomew may be a shade on the jackanapes side for those who want their Stevenson straight, but he fits this feckless Fox version. Gibbous nose aloft and in fine priggish voice, Master Freddie imparts phonetic reality to an age when Britishers wrote s's that looked like...
Looking back on her 49 feckless years, Evalyn sometimes feels surprised that she is still alive. She has managed to winnow a little wisdom from the chaff, hopes her children will profit from her experience. She does not regret paying $4,000 for her pink satin sheets because, "as any woman knows, forgetful, restful sleep will take out wrinkles." She is still defiant about having been tricked by the notorious Gaston B. Means into paying him $100,000 for the return of the kidnapped Lindbergh baby. And she has told her children: "If you start paying blackmail you will never...
...midyears has long since received a neatly printed notice from the Dean's Office reminding him that due to his failure to maintain a B average he must be particularly careful not to cut classes around holiday time. The implied threat is the big stick of probation for the feckless undergraduate who is careless enough to bid defiance to University Hall on this momentous question by slipping down to Wellesley or Smith on pleasure bent and returning beyond the deadline of his first class...