hapless

IPA: hˈæpɫʌs

Examples of "hapless" in Sentences

Should we call the hapless storyteller an anecdope?
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.