The explanations for this fecklessness start, of course, with the president's poll numbers.

Such was his nature, and the terrible plight of these people did not make him patient with fecklessness.

This time the fecklessness and deceit were all too familiar.

On the contrary, he was more often timid to the point of fecklessness.

Chabon does well with fecklessness, and he ends the story at just the right moment.

Over the last few weeks, the Mayor's failure to get concerned about the problem has been elevated from a lack of focus to fecklessness.

Will he, at long last, acknowledge the administration's fecklessness?

He still lives it, you see, all that lost frothy fecklessness of his youth.

Some call it fecklessness but I understand their sentiment.

From the militants' perspective, America's record has been one of inconsistency and fecklessness.

In that period of fecklessness may lie a clue to his current responsibleness.

There have been 10 governments in 10 years, each known for corruption and fecklessness.

Means testing rewards fecklessness and creates injustice at the margin.

I think most people believe in degress of fecklessness.

To those who don't, they are a symbol of aggression, immaturity and fecklessness.

An Administration with no clear idea of where it wants to go and, as several people suggested, an attack of fecklessness at a crucial time.

All women in Botswana were the victims of the fecklessness of men.

The courage of ordinary citizens here offers a pointed contrast to the fecklessness everywhere else.

What begins as a decisive act, they say, can often end up seeming like just so much more bungling and fecklessness.

In a comic novel, you'd barely notice Paul's fecklessness.

Find out how they got to that place - it might surprise you how small a part sheer fecklessness plays.

Belatedly, he is coming to understand that a reputation for foreign policy fecklessness can undermine domestic credibility.

But there was a fecklessness about him.

In effect, Reagan had made his case for governmental fecklessness and oppressiveness by making it practice what he preached against.

He then raged about the fecklessness of under-age mothers.