haplessness

Example Sentences

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I confess my haplessness because getting new trees wrong is part of learning to love them.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2023

And yet, on the page, under the right conditions, haplessness is the thing we gather around like a biomass stove and gently warm our hands over.

From Washington Post • Sep. 26, 2022

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

And the dog's occasional haplessness is a nice realistic change from her fearlessness.

From Salon • Aug. 10, 2022

At last we hapless men Know all our haplessness all through. 

From Poems by Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson