hapless
adjective
Origin of hapless
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Related Words for hapless
unlucky, woeful, cursed, ill-fated, loser, luckless, miserable, star-crossed, unhappy, untoward, wretched, infelicitous, hexed, ill-starred, jonah, snakebitExamples from the Web for hapless
Contemporary Examples of hapless
It helps that Wendy Davis is a hapless opponent, but as a test proving it can be done, any success is welcomed.
“At first I was happy to be learning to read,” explains the hapless adult illiterate Office Barbrady in an early episode.
It becomes a hapless gesture of uninformed social media departments who perceive the potential of engagement without consequences.
With them are thousands of other hapless mall-goers, descending rapidly into deadly anarchy.
Finally, Cleese goose-steps out of the dining room as the hapless Germans cringe and sob.
Life Under Air Strikes: Children Under Fire Will Never Forget — or ForgiveClive Irving
August 3, 2014
Historical Examples of hapless
But Fortune had not yet exhausted her malice against the hapless Athenians.
Stories from ThucydidesH. L. Havell
Hapless as his condition was, he might still pray for mercy, and might possibly find it.
BunyanJames Anthony Froude
He sprang forward at once towards the hapless boy, dragging the coat with him.
The Fiery TotemArgyll Saxby
Poor, hapless Bernardine could have cried aloud as she listened.
Jolly Sally PendletonLaura Jean Libbey
And could love do so little at its most unfortunate and hapless ending?
Aunt RachelDavid Christie Murray