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Feckless

Spiritless; weak; worthless.

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Incompetent 84% connected

Not competent; wanting in adequate strength, power, capacity, means, qualifications, or the like; incapable; unable; inadequate; unfit.

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Incompetent 84% connected

Not competent; wanting in adequate strength, power, capacity, means, qualifications, or the like; incapable; unable; inadequate; unfit.

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Irresponsible 84% connected

Nor responsible; not liable or able to answer fro consequences; innocent.

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Irresponsible 84% connected

Nor responsible; not liable or able to answer fro consequences; innocent.

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Inept 92% connected

Not apt or fit; unfit; unsuitable; improper; unbecoming.

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Amort adjective · 78% connection

As if dead; lifeless; spiritless; dejected; depressed.

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Cold noun · 78% connection

Wanting in ardor, intensity, warmth, zeal, or passion; spiritless; unconcerned; reserved.

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Cowardly adjective · 78% connection

Wanting courage; basely or weakly timid or fearful; pusillanimous; spiritless.

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Craven noun · 78% connection

A recreant; a coward; a weak-hearted, spiritless fellow. See Recreant, n.

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Dead-hearted adjective · 78% connection

Having a dull, faint heart; spiritless; listless.

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Deaden adjective · 78% connection

To make vapid or spiritless; as, to deaden wine.

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Die verb · 78% connection

To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.

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Dull superl. · 78% connection

Heavy; gross; cloggy; insensible; spiritless; lifeless; inert.

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Exanimate adjective · 78% connection

Destitute of animation; spiritless; disheartened.

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Flag verb · 78% connection

To droop; to grow spiritless; to lose vigor; to languish; as, the spirits flag; the streugth flags.

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Flagging adjective · 78% connection

Growing languid, weak, or spiritless; weakening; delaying.

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Flat verb · 78% connection

To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress.

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Flatten verb · 78% connection

To become or grow flat, even, depressed dull, vapid, spiritless, or depressed below pitch.

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Heartless adjective · 78% connection

Destitute of courage; spiritless; despodent.

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Hilding adjective · 78% connection

Base; spiritless.

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Languish verb · 78% connection

To become languid or weak; to lose strength or animation; to be or become dull, feeble or spiritless; to pine away; to wither or fade.

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Lifeless adjective · 78% connection

Destitute of life, or deprived of life; not containing, or inhabited by, living beings or vegetation; dead, or apparently dead; spirit…

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Listless adjective · 78% connection

Having no desire or inclination; indifferent; heedless; spiritless.

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