hapless
adjective
unlucky; luckless; unfortunate.
haplessness
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a word derived from
hapless.
Example Sentences
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New York went over half a century of misery and haplessness without a title.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
Pierce Brosnan and Ellen Barkin play the parental units with unabashed, even unhinged, broadness, against which Devine’s haplessness really sings.
From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2023
I confess my haplessness because getting new trees wrong is part of learning to love them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2023
Finishing a Saturday crossword in under 10 minutes gives me a ridiculously deep sense of pleasure; my ongoing haplessness at cryptics wounds my ego.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 29, 2022
At last we hapless men Know all our haplessness all through.
From Poems by Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell
