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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Once again, the source of good humor was the hapless salesman from Montclair, New Jersey.† (source)
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The unassuming, shy, and hapless Luther Driggers had a darker side.† (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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We are only hapless victims of that irony.† (source)
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When the spring was released, the fist shot out at a hapless puppet.† (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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Incensed, Jerry heaved the glass, catching a hapless dresser in the shoulder.† (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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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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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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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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And in entertaining visitors at Pointe du Lac-those hapless travelers who came up the river road by horseback or carriage begging accommodations for the night, sporting letters of introduction from other planters or officials in New Orleans.† (source)
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