haplessness
- 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
I confess my haplessness because getting new trees wrong is part of learning to love them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2023
Yet a haplessness clings to Hamm that tends to take the air out of his character’s shenanigans.
From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2022
In this sports-mad city, where heartbreak is tradition, this outfitter’s hottest items used to be therapeutic resignations of the Bengals’ haplessness: “Hue + Lewis and the Boos,” “Seize the Meh,” “Time for Some Dey Drinking.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 29, 2022
At last we hapless men Know all our haplessness all through.
From Poems by Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson
