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hapless
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  • It's a pair of hapless lovers: he crosses the briny deep: and she is left lamenting.†  (source)
  • He was followed to the grave by a vast multitude of mourners, who "gave the hapless man the funeral of a king."†  (source)
  • 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)
  • Thank you," I mumbled haplessly, while inside I was screaming in terror.†  (source)
  • 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.
  • Sydelle was in pain, but she wanted attention on her own terms, not as a hapless, foolish victim of fate.  (source)
    hapless = unfortunate
  • Once again, the source of good humor was the hapless salesman from Montclair, New Jersey.†  (source)
  • Frau Holtzapfel clamored, but her sentence was just another hapless voice in the warm chaos of the shelter.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • The unassuming, shy, and hapless Luther Driggers had a darker side.†  (source)
  • You also want to save this hapless creature.†  (source)
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