hapless

Example Sentences

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Sam is hapless and downwardly mobile, yet he’s as likable as a shy puppy.

From The Wall Street Journal

Yet, these supposedly most-promising stars are mostly hapless wannabes leaning on their skills in nunchucks and mime.

From Los Angeles Times

It was an oval basket, woven with an interior funnel into which a hapless river prawn had swum.

From Literature

A week later they were dominant in going 21-0 ahead against Argentina and then hapless in conceding 33 points in the second half and losing.

From BBC

Baldwin was so hapless that he didn’t even know when he was near death.

From Los Angeles Times