feckless

Modifies a noun

• parent: Even children of feckless parents will gain because choice works at the margins.
• father: Twenty years ago, black men were routinely seen on TV as pimps, muggers, drug dealers and feckless fathers.
• mother: Unfortunately, for many it is that well-known stereotype, the " feckless teenage mother " .
• man: The feckless man no longer cares for his wife's ideals, or even for himself.
• servant: Government IT projects either fail because of overambitious, and under-achieving, suppliers or because of incompetent and feckless civil servants.
• boyfriend: Worse still she hadn't anyone in the world to turn to apart from the feckless boyfriend who helped her to become an addict.

Modifying Another Word

• not: Anyone who knows us will be aware that we're not feckless.