chiefly Scottish

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for feckly
Adverb
  • When Palmer Luckey began tinkering in a camper in his parents’ driveway, the kind of rapid innovation that is flourishing in Ukraine was almost unthinkable in the American defense establishment.
    Dexter Filkins, New Yorker, 14 July 2025
  • This frame, the project dips almost 20 spaces, falling from No. 125 to No. 144.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
Adverb
  • Thought and action are practically one and the same: Hungry!
    Mari Andrew, Time, 1 July 2025
  • All that effort has put more than 1.3 million asteroids in our catalogs, but astronomers expect Rubin to identify perhaps three times that many new objects—practically without trying.
    Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 1 July 2025
Adverb
  • Schirmer said total new vehicle inventory is back up to nearly 3 million total available new vehicles in the United States.
    Jamie L. LaReau, Freep.com, 14 July 2025
  • Excluding Israel and Ukraine, the United States spent nearly $52 billion on foreign aid last year.
    The Editors, National Review, 14 July 2025
Adverb
  • Drake Baldwin, 24, could lead the Braves to weigh offers for Murphy, who’s owed about $50 million through 2028.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 July 2025
  • The group of fires is in an area that stretches about 3 miles alongside U.S. 85 from Titan Road to Kelly Court, Willie said.
    Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 14 July 2025
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“Feckly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/feckly. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.

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