hapless
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It starts with a requisitely strange and solid premise: Hapless 20-something Jamie Hawthorne makes headlines while committing a petty crime at work.
From Washington Post • Jul. 5, 2022
Hapless investors faced years of grueling litigation by a court-appointed trustee who was tasked with “clawing back” what turned out to be fictitious profits they withdrew from their Madoff accounts.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2021
Hapless newlyweds with copious personal issues simmering beneath the veneer of puppy love, Stefan and Valerie are spellbound by the Countess and her doleful assistant while honeymooning at a decadent seaside resort in the off-season.
From The Guardian • Oct. 30, 2020
Hapless fans however, got Rickrolled once they clicked on the link.
From Time • Jul. 25, 2016
Or than he, Olenus, when the crime upon himself He took, and guilty wish'd to seem; with thee Hapless Lethæa, confident in charms.
From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by Howard, J. J.
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