Feckless vs Fuckless - What's the difference?
feckless | fuckless |
Lacking purpose.
* 2005 , Canberra Times , September 10
Without skill, ineffective, incompetent.
(UK) Lacking the courage to act in any meaningful way.
(British, archaic) Lacking vitality.
(slang, vulgar) Devoid of sexual intercourse.
* {{quote-journal
, year = 1991
, title = Introduction: Fear of a Queer Planet
, first = Michael
, last = Warner
, journal = (Social Text)
, issn = 0164-2472
, issue = 29
, page = 5
, jstor = 466295
, passage = What would an UPTIGHT FUCKLESS PRIG like you know about eros, anyway?
}}
* {{quote-book
, year = 1995
, first = William H.
, last = Gass
, authorlink = William H. Gass
, title = The Tunnel
, isbn = 9780679437673
, ol = 1088060M
, passage = ...I tell you, instead let's pretend we're two new copper-coloured coins thrown on the world at random by the US Mint and let's have just about that much to do with one another now or in a future which is to be fuckless between us as furniture.
}}
* {{quote-book
, year = 1999
, first = Christopher
, last = Nolan
, authorlink = Christopher Nolan (author)
, title = The Banyan Tree
, isbn = 9781559705110
, ol = 24945986M
, section = ch. 63
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=AbFeOwdbzAsC&pg=PT219&dq=fuckless
, passage = Now her being never needed to voice a moan, for her ears heard a born-again voice, the voice of Minnie Humphrey-that-was, as jumpin' and jivin' it skewered the glory trapped here despite her fuckless life.
}}
* {{quote-book
, year = 2001
, first = Rick
, last = DeMarinis
, authorlink = Rick DeMarinis
, title = A Clod of Wayward Marl
, publisher = Dennis McMillan
, isbn = 9780939767373
, ol = 8419443M
, page = 217
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=yvewAAAAIAAJ&dq=fuckless
, passage = You've fucked standing up in an elevator in Lisbon, and once in her mother's bathroom while her poor fuckless father practiced his yodeling in the backyard, bombed on Southern Comfort.
}}
As adjectives the difference between feckless and fuckless
is that feckless is lacking purpose while fuckless is devoid of sexual intercourse.feckless
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- It is the beauty of great games when they are played at their highest level and the extraordinary thing now is that we do not have to trawl back through all the years of your inexorable progress from feckless beach boy to master sportsman."