Sample Sentences forhapless (auto-selected)
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Sydelle was in pain, but she wanted attention on her own terms, not as a hapless, foolish victim of fate. (source)hapless = unfortunate
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You also want to save this hapless creature.† (source)
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We are only hapless victims of that irony.† (source)
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The unassuming, shy, and hapless Luther Driggers had a darker side.† (source)
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Once again, the source of good humor was the hapless salesman from Montclair, New Jersey.† (source)
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Instantly half a dozen bolts of lightning from the nearest tesla arced to the hapless animal.† (source)
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He'd been a member of the hapless Sir John Franklin's first two expeditions and had survived both of them; it was Richardson who executed, by gunshot, the suspected murderer-cannibal on the first expedition.† (source)
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Yes, but we recall that Hamlet is himself a hapless ditherer, and it's only circumstance that saves him from his own haplessness and confers on him something noble and tragic.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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Every few seconds some hapless avatar or ship would inadvertently fly or careen into the shield and get vaporized, like a fly hitting a bug zapper.† (source)
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Frau Holtzapfel clamored, but her sentence was just another hapless voice in the warm chaos of the shelter.† (source)
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And the hapless boy who represented the traveler was the priggish little scholar they most cordially disliked.† (source)
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For what an uninspiring role it is; to be Joseph—that hapless follower, that stand-in, that guy along for the ride.† (source)
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Mr Dark loomed closer, magnificent in his picture-gallery flesh, his eyes, the eyes of all his beasts and hapless creatures cutting through his shirt, coat, trousers, fastening the old man tight, biting him with fire, fixing him with thousandfold attentions.† (source)
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He imagined some hapless monster terrorizing a random demigod in Kansas, only to find itself surrounded by several dozen carloads of heavily armored Romans.† (source)
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A black car, alive with nasty lights, whines past her the other way, closing in on the hapless Hiro Protagonist.† (source)
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Groans from the hapless radiators, coupled with the slamming of the wind against their windows, had kept them awake through the dark hours.† (source)
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