| In one of those stupidities that mark a life of bad choices, a quite verbal, witty, but somewhat feckless woman became my business partner. |
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| A girl also needs peace to reapply her lippy, regroup and prepare for the next merciless assault on some feckless tippler. |
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| The actress is as irritating as she is perfect in the role of feckless and blowsy Kathy who loses her house after a mix up with local taxes. |
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| One is made up largely of deprived and feckless girls while the other is dominated by highly educated and successful career women. |
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| Their shared affection for the warmhearted, feckless Martin is a further bond between them. |
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| She may be a feckless and incompetent parent, but that is no reason for her not being treated properly. |
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| Working in Carnaby Street would exacerbate my ire, because it attracts all sorts of feckless tourists. |
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| Ever year they spew out a healthy amount of guileless, enthusiastic, hard working feckless idiots, ready to be put to work by their seniors. |
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| Giving complete novices the responsibility for reviving a feckless football team would, in itself, be irresponsible. |
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| But when we actually get on TV, we are relatively feckless and ineffective. |
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| Your feckless neighbour, however, will get the full range of government help. |
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| When they do eventually arrive here, feckless ministers like to lecture us on how we should conduct our business. |
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| Either they are feckless and troublesome, or they are being handed exams on a plate. |
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| Secondly, we convinced them that we were a wealthy, feckless country that would not fight. |
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| So, not only are the students feckless, lazy, promiscuous and drunk, they're also liars. |
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| So the older brother became a rather feckless Oxford undergraduate just about to begin his own career. |
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| For a younger more feckless child this kind of behaviour might be acceptable, but he was too old to be still in his pyjamas in the street. |
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| Well, his millionaire dad stipulated in his will that the feckless Josh wasn't to get a penny of his inheritance unless he wrote a bestseller. |
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| What the deuce was I about when I married one of these scurvy, feckless, futile, scrimshank, scallywag men? |
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| Sometimes we fail simply because we are poor, dumb, fallible, feckless human beings whose best-laid schemes gang aft agley. |
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| Irish working class girls were viewed as drunken and feckless, only suitable to be housemaids or laundresses. |
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| At 21, Caroline took up with Philippe Junot, a feckless playboy 17 years her senior. |
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| The matriarchal trouper and her feckless daughter bear more than a passing resemblance to a real-life theatrical pair from the past. |
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| The males stand about in feckless groups until picked by a girl, who takes a pebble and drops it wherever she requires her beaux to dig a burrow. |
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| Who are these feckless, irresponsible moochers using bankruptcy to avoid paying legitimate debts? |
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| Dear Aunt Fan was generous and feckless, a large woman with a heart of gold, never a penny to bless herself with or a feather to fly with. |
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| The feckless teenagers of Fraserburgh are to be rewarded by the boys in blue for their good grace in actually obeying the law of the land? |
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| First there's the feckless bartender Randy, content to sling beer at McCool's until the night that he meets her. |
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| He commissions his three sons, two of them untrustworthy and feckless, the third brave and honest, to go and find the bird and return it to him. |
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| Now, after seven years in reform school, he is adjusting to life on the outside in the company of his feckless father. |
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| Many headteachers will feel that such a role could undermine the need to establish a constructive relationship with parents, however feckless and irresponsible they may be. |
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| He was an auld, doddering man, a maffling, feckless auld doit. |
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| Instead, the feckless British Parliament is off on an 80-day holiday and the new laws will have to wait until spring 2006 before they become operable. |
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| His feckless mother left him with her family in Denbighshire when he was still an infant, and his uncles paid a couple to care for him until he was six years old. |
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| To prove his point, the editor, a young, feckless fellow, asked me to write an upbeat, optimistic birthday column, saying how things had improved in the dale this past decade. |
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| With these vague and imponderable concerns behind us, we may return to the main line of our story refreshed and unburdened of all such feckless speculation. |
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| They are quite likely to see right through you and your feckless ways, like Saffy in Absolutely Fabulous withering Edina and Patsy with her magnificently polished disdain. |
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| In contrast to the feckless Iraqi commanders who fled Mosul, these Iranian forces are disciplined, motivated, and ruthless. |
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| At 21, Caroline took up with a feckless playboy 17 years her senior. |
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| I was a feckless young man, without direction, commonsense, or gumption. |
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| Still, the video is a reminder of how feckless U.S. efforts to free American hostages have become. |
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| The company's line was that it was putting on a music show and doing everything reasonable, and a bit more, to protect feckless people from themselves. |
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| This disdain stems from anger at intrusive Congressional action and feckless Congressional inaction. |
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| Strategic recklessness aside, the chief problem with the plan was that it needed a weak, feckless opposition. |
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| There are feckless and irresponsible young fathers out there. |
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| The old Kaiser Franz Joseph, faithful and hardworking, was the obverse of the feckless and impetuous German kaiser. |
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| For Marie Antoinette, as for Diana, it was a no-win situation, not helped by the fact that she and her feckless husband had difficulty in producing all-important heirs. |
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| Young Henry, though, was ever feckless and irresponsible, concerned to cut a fine chivalric figure but utterly uninterested in the serious business of government. |
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| The prodigal ex-hippie who returns to an Essex village after blagging his way through eight years on the scrounge is still as charming and feckless as ever. |
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| After two disastrous attempts to make a go of it as a farmer, his feckless father was ready to try again. |
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| How much is Irina's feckless father somehow responsible for the snooker player's irresistibility? |
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| The lawyer seems a committed anti-racist and a feckless lazybones at the same time, and McConaughey never finds a workable rhythm. |
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| Alone in the graveyard, the feckless groupie cleared his throat for the inevitable what-a-bastard coda. |
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| I don't think it's because Glasgow people are particularly feckless. |
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| Even his critics know that in today's world the cost of borrowing punishes the feckless. |
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| It also sends a much stronger signal than the weak and feckless response of the Council in 1998, which issued only a press statement. |
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| Some feckless person in the Commission foolishly said yes, a 250 mg limit would be acceptable. |
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| Maybe their feckless mothers waste money smoking and drinking? |
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| The Democrats sensibly blamed the feckless, bootless Bush administration for the collapse of the markets. |
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| They are like wives midway through marriage therapy designed to reconcile and foster a new beginning with a feckless husband who has perpetually let them down. |
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| In the Pixar films Stanton has guided, the children are mostly destructive and the adults mostly feckless — leaving a moral vacuum that only a guileless doodad can fill. |
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| But critics argued the ASBOs too often became viewed as a 'badge of honour' by the disaffected or feckless youths it was aimed at curbing. |
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| The open hostility between director and star, with Burton cast as the feckless lotus-eater and Ritt as the injured unforgiver, fed Burton's sense of alienation and gave force to his performance. |
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| Three-quarters of Canada's inspectors believe that a major accident will occur soon and that the public would lose confidence in aviation safety if they knew what reckless, feckless plans the minister has. |
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| For all the geeky looks and whininess of tone, Ed Miliband is a cannier and more able Opposition leader than the lazy caricature as feckless nebbish allows. |
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| Every well-off MP, or any MP that has a big financial backer or corporate sponsor now knows that Elections Canada is completely feckless, completely unable to police, to stop or to do anything about these massive loans. |
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| Will the government come clean and admit that its feckless idea of whistleblowing legislation is more about plugging leaks than about protecting honest civil servants? |
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| In a world where every week new TV shows and articles seek to convince us all that people on welfare are feckless, lazy and can't budget, we need to put forward the alternative reality. |
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| Looking at these figures, some might say this is the fault of the feckless, of those who wanted newly built flats, German kitchens and exotic holidays during the boom but couldn't afford them. |
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| In Illinois, I came across the well-born but feckless Niles Plymouth. |
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| Some berate the show for reinforcing the notion that all those on benefits are feckless, lazy scroungers. |
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| A timid and feckless labelling program will not protect Canadians. |
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| And should he return to the faith, the Church must not accept him back as though nothing had happened: that was the way to fill its ranks with feckless drifters and hypocrites. |
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| Remember, for instance, the eugenic sterilisation of the feckless? |
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| Before taking up journalism, he was briefly jailed for selling encyclopedias without a licence. In this rather feckless life, environmentalism became an all-absorbing cause. |
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| A Norwegian former ski champion Jomar Henrikson now lives a feckless and dissolute life as a ski instructor after emerging from deep depression which accompanied the end of his career. |
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| The German backlash was severe, with the media denouncing Greek spongers and feckless southern Europeans while attacking Merkel for betraying the principles supposed to underpin the euro. |
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| The Tory party commitment to this referendum is feckless and reckless. |
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| And through this local's view of feckless and hostile black inhabitants, perhaps we can sense something of how the world might have looked to those five young men as they climbed into their Hilux that freezing July night. |
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| As it propagates perverse caricatures of communities brimming with the feckless and the idle, the actual situation facing people around the UK is airbrushed out of the picture. |
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| For heaven's sake, put an end to this ridiculous pandying to the feckless idiots who have no thought for the cost of time and money involved in saving their pathetic lives. |
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| He regretted the re-make of the classic Alfie, with him in the Michael Caine role of feckless fornicator, on the grounds that nobody does that better than Maurice Micklewhite. |
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