The phrase "feckless of" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English, although it is not a commonly used phrase.
It means lacking initiative or responsibility, or showing a lack of purpose or direction. Example: The company's leadership was feckless of addressing the employee's concerns, resulting in a high turnover rate.
Not proud of the terrible politicians who foisted this on us, not proud of the feckless cowardice of Malcolm Turnbull, not proud of the No campaign's objectively false claims, not proud of anyone who supported this utter mess.
It tells of a feckless mother of four who feeds her offspring a bag of sugar, because there's nothing else in the cupboard, then abandons them outside a pub while she flirts with a man inside.
But in the more than one thousand interviews I have undertaken in east London, I have never come across any of the feckless cockneys of popular lore.
We aren't proud of the feckless cowardice of Australia's prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull.
It is, moreover, a damning account of the parasitic, corrupting interests slowly degrading the legislative process and of the feckless state of American bureaucracy.
"I'd like to see another empty chair for the 250,000 Syrians that have been slaughtered, and barrel bombed, and starved to death, and tortured by Bashar Assad thanks to [Obama's] failed policy, because of a feckless policy of leading from behind, deciding not to arm the Free Syrian Army over the recommendations of his national security team, including Hillary Clinton," he said.
Hiding behind "fiscal responsibility" in times of deficits has made them feckless defenders of limited government in times of surplus.
During some of the more feckless stretches of the presidency people have even suggested that Martin Sheen, who played Bartlet, should give it a whirl for real.
A succession of roles as feckless objects of desire in second-rate date movies quickly earned McConaughey a name for cruising his way through scripts that did not ask much of either the cast or the audience.
That mood of feckless extravagance was out-of-step with Britain in the early Sixties, where wartime austerity measures and rationing had barely ceased (the latter only ended in 1954).
