hapless

How To Use hapless In A Sentence

• The photo plates also age and sex accipiters, those hawks that flap, flap, sail, and are the mostly likely the ones that raid our feeders of hapless birds.
• It is thought the hapless cat had been trying to escape after becoming trapped in a sewer. The Sun
• But his infamy was sealed by the government's all-out campaign against his hapless sidekicks, falsely portrayed as part of a vast Confederate plot.
• Who knows what pressure that may bring on a hapless opponent? Times, Sunday Times
• After all, failure to do so could leave them as hapless bystanders in a game of musical chairs which may be nearing its climax.
• The hapless passengers were stranded at the airport for three days.
• It made no difference that many of these lost and hapless souls had relatives in the Society. DEVASTATING EDEN: The Search for Utopia in America
• In such circumstances, it seemed deeply repugnant that a hapless minority of Americans should again be exposed to mortal peril. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
• It was impossible to judge the Germans on their walloping of hapless Saudi Arabia.
• I feel that I have not yet penetrated truly what this book is about, although it surely depicts the hapless life of someone who lives in narcissistic illusion as well as the damage wrought by others who are the same but in a different style. "To Make the Bears Dance"