hapless
IPA: hˈæpɫʌs
adjective
- (Especially of a person) unfortunate.
- Very unlucky; ill-fated.
- (Very) miserable, wretched, unhappy, measly, forlorn.
- Devoid of talent or skill.
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Examples of "hapless" in Sentences
- It can ensnare the hapless men around it.
- They feed on the homeless and hapless passersby.
- Is the hapless victim of a press gang a terrorist
- Each one of which, is blamed on the hapless Jholu
- Should we call the hapless storyteller an anecdope?
- When the larva hatches it consumes the hapless insect.
- Were the hapless pilots ejected, or launched from the catapult
- In Akron, East was seen as being the hapless victim of a crooked team.
- He was a fighter for the upliftment of the down trodden and the hapless.
- Alan is the hapless father of Jake Harper and the brother of Charlie Harper.
- The hapless person is then grinded into a bloody pulp that the mutants drink.
- From ‘cowboy up’ to ‘lawyer up,’ Bush is a man for whom the word hapless is effusive praise.
- They also miss that it isn't "just like" their partisan foes calling the hapless Dubya "Chimpy McHitlerBurton".
- The government – that is, the hapless FDIC – puts up 85 per cent of $5 million to buy this – namely, $4,250,000.
- Back before they were Super Bowl champs, some called the hapless team the "Aints" and in shame would pull paper bags over their heads.
- The highlight of her reign of terror: The now-infamous "Saving Private Ryan" interpretive dance, part of a longer sequence, assembled to celebrate nominated film scores, which The Post's reviewer described as a "hapless, protracted gaffe."
- Like her and many others of our generation, I knew all the old gang pretty well but have met only a handful of today's lot, Maginnes, the Attwoods, Hanna, Dallat, Ritchie, McGrady, McDonnell and yes the "hapless" - (unkind and overstated) - Durkan.
- Chapter 62 consists of a single word, "hapless" - the only word Orion's abridger cut from the chapter, trimming a 105-word sentence to 104; the book's first sentence is "methodically"; the final hunt for the white whale dissolves into pure punctuation.