Word: feckless
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...next day, having spent a feckless night seeking means of release from politicians, they were arraigned in mufti before the Grand Jury. Mr. Monaghan began to produce his evidence of their guilt...
...memory of a stillborn son, he went to the land. He grew ambitious, fiery. Only his timid wife and the want of a son darkened his horizon. The mouselike wife saw, and left him that he might marry the sewing maid on whose youth he looked with lust. That feckless wench gave him a son, but left him with ruin from her extravagance and his land debauched from overlove, overambition. The farm was sold under his feet. His boy died. But in his hour of despair, his unwanted wife stepped back into his life, as at his need...