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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a feckless underclass" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a social group perceived as ineffective or lacking in initiative, often in discussions about socioeconomic issues.
Example: "The report highlighted the challenges faced by a feckless underclass, struggling to find opportunities in a rapidly changing economy."
Alternatives: "an ineffectual lower class" or "a powerless underprivileged group".
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Indeed, despite tabloid headlines about a feckless underclass intent on milking the benefits system, tax evasion is a far bigger social scourge than fraudulent benefit claims.
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These figures, together with information on previous criminal histories, led the Sun to describe the rioters as being part of a "feckless criminal underclass".
Krystal, for those who haven't read the novel, is Krystal Weedon, the sixth-former daughter of a junkie, doing her best to bring up her toddler brother – and symbolic of a feckless and semi-criminal underclass living in an adjoining housing estate called the Fields that the more conservative elements of Pagford would like to see separated from their midst by dint of a boundary change.
Only a feckless bureaucracy could conclude otherwise.
But these days, the political center is a feckless shell.
A "feckless weakling", Chris Christie, the New Jersey Governor, recently called him.
The ruckus is over Ivan (Brian Stokes Mitchell), a feckless actor.
According to McCabe, Lynch and Yates "made a feckless compromise".
Bob and his friends are a feckless, obsessed crew.
(Christie did, however, call President Obama a "feckless weakling").
He described his bookmaker father, Joseph, as a feckless drifter.
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