chiefly Scottish

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for feckly
Adverb
  • Your Friends & Neighbors was actually her first time back on set in almost five years.
    Danielle Pergament, SELF, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Famously owned by the actor and musician for almost a decade until 2001, when the place traded hands for around $2.2 million, records show the property was last sold to politician Justin Aguilera and his beauty entrepreneur wife Candace in 2020 for nearly $3 million.
    Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 10 Apr. 2025
Adverb
  • Excluding operators from development creates technically sound but practically flawed optimization targets.
    Pieter Van Schalkwyk, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
  • At a time when practically the entire rom-com genre has gravitated to streaming, this bilingual theatrical offering from Sony Pictures Classics feels like the best kind of throwback.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 9 Apr. 2025
Adverb
  • Mapping shallow waters with this level of precision used to be nearly impossible, but now, scientists, conservationists and planners have a powerful new tool at their fingertips.
    Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report, FOXNews.com, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Famously owned by the actor and musician for almost a decade until 2001, when the place traded hands for around $2.2 million, records show the property was last sold to politician Justin Aguilera and his beauty entrepreneur wife Candace in 2020 for nearly $3 million.
    Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 10 Apr. 2025
Adverb
  • In fact, Britain’s Ministry of Defence, in common with other analysts, assesses Russia’s rate of advance to have been in steady decline for six months, from about 730 square kilometers captured in November last year to just 143 last month.
    Andrew Carey and Kosta Gak, CNN Money, 9 Apr. 2025
  • In 2023, about $1.4 billion of the school’s $1.7 billion in research awards came from the federal government.
    E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2025
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“Feckly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/feckly. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.

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