haplessin a sentence
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a hapless victim
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Weeps over them and wrings his hapless hands† (source)
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How long is it since there has been peace in my hapless country?† (source)
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It's a pair of hapless lovers: he crosses the briny deep: and she is left lamenting.† (source)
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He was followed to the grave by a vast multitude of mourners, who "gave the hapless man the funeral of a king."† (source)
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The hapless Dantes was doomed.† (source)
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Thus, at last, our hapless travellers, deprived of water in this torrid heat, began to feel symptoms of mental disorder.† (source)
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Thank you," I mumbled haplessly, while inside I was screaming in terror.† (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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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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Once again, the source of good humor was the hapless salesman from Montclair, New Jersey.† (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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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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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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The unassuming, shy, and hapless Luther Driggers had a darker side.† (source)
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You also want to save this hapless creature.† (source)
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