hapless
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Wearing drill-sergeant regalia, Porowski instructs a group of hapless male shopper actors in such supermarket fundamentals as distinguishing celery from leeks, checking expiration dates and identifying ripe bananas.
From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026
Speaking to the media on Thursday, McDermott likened it to the hapless journey undertaken by Steve Martin and John Candy in their 1987 road-trip comedy.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
Hartnett plays the hapless man well but his naivety could be concealing something more sinister, as it did in the M. Night Shyamalan thriller “Trap.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Kevin Sussman returns as the hapless owner of a comic-book store in a hilarious HBO Max follow-up to “The Big Bang Theory.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
He imagined some hapless monster terrorizing a random demigod in Kansas, only to find itself surrounded by several dozen carloads of heavily armoured Romans.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
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