haplessness
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
Irritable, neurotic, decent, confused and sardonic, Larry is a refreshing nod to the kind of spiky haplessness Jack Lemmon mastered.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2025
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
At last we hapless men Know all our haplessness all through.
From Poems by Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson
