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"
Ah! hapless voyagers, gazing with simple wonder on these Circean shores! Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8
If I'm not mistaken, the hapless home side need to score five goals without reply to win.
Back before they were Super Bowl champs, some called the hapless team the "Aints" and in shame would pull paper bags over their heads. LocalNews8.com - Local News 8 - Headlines
After that the abuse rained down continually upon the hapless Mr O'Brien, like rocks and pumice from a spluttering volcano.
This week my graduate seminar students (at Parsons Fine Arts MFA) and I had a great discussion leading from Robert Smithson's writings on entropy to issues of pessimism about social change and what might be the point of human intervention towards ideals of progressive social activism in an entropically irreversible situation: interesting in this light to read Bob Herbert Op-Ed piece in the October 26, 2010 copy of The New York Times, "The Corrosion of America": do we just go along "haplessly"/hopelessly with the flow of entropy and the corrosion and ruin of our infrastructure (a ruin which is in a sense "always already" from before its inception, in Smithson's example of "The Monuments of Passaic") creating or suggesting an art which does not try to impose an idealist order or moral value to an entropic situation of urban and suburban decay, or do we believe enough in human labor despite ultimate futility or mortality to make the investment in our near futures by fixing the infrastructure? Mira Schor: Corroded infrastructure 2010/Robert Smithson's Writings on Entropy, 1966-67
And the hapless soldier's sigh Runs in blood down palace walls.
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
The hapless matador eventually managed to leave the arena under heavy police protection; the fate of the bull was not documented.
Oh, buffalo!" she exclaimed, clapping her hands, while Little An stared in horror and absolutely beat his forehead with his fists, and the hapless victim struggled helplessly, distracted and outraged - for I have my dignity, dammit, and I bar being unbreeched and assailed by opium-sodden houris, however be-witching, without even a by-your-leave. Flashman And The Dragon
One man has received a particularly generous gift, courtesy of a hapless bank clerk. Times, Sunday Times
Jeffrey is pretty hapless, and a very funny spoof of an irritating circuit queen.
In comedic fashion, the dos and don'ts of winning and keeping a man are detailed to assist the hapless female in finding Mr. Right.
Hapless De Breze; doomed to survive long ages, in men's memory, in this faint way, with tremulent white rod! The French Revolution
I called the guv’s office when I got home, and asked for a clarification, but the hapless staffer I spoke to knew nothing about the statement. Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: Let’s Go Real Far-Right…
This hapless creature had never experienced a moment of pleasure.
The owner scooted over from doing his genial rounds of the table and scooped up the hapless moggy, depositing him safely but unceremoniously on the street outside.
One man has received a particularly generous gift, courtesy of a hapless bank clerk. Times, Sunday Times
Frohnmayer attempted to whitewash his hapless record; at least Alexander is more self-critical.
Yet it is hard not to conclude that there is another factor at work; after all, people are not merely hapless victims of structural trends. Times, Sunday Times
The courtyard will play host to the dreamscape of the haplessly bombastic Ignatius J. Karen Dalton-Beninato: The Goddess Fortuna in an Attempt to Make Sense of It All
Throughout, these figures mirror humanity in all its pomposity and haplessness, calculation and honesty, devotion and infidelity, profanity and piety.
Both were hapless victims of the growing violence of immigrant gangs, according to police. Times, Sunday Times
In Wuthering Heights Catherine Earnshaw's old books and scrawled, diaristic notations discovered by Heathcliff's hapless tenant afford a spiritual channeling scene in which Catherine's ghost is summoned from the beyond.
In the e-mail, I thought to myself, I would explicate my apparent teenage gawkiness from the previous day as the consequence of being mortifyingly embarrassed and hapless.
This is largely because dance mix albums have come to be seen as yet another means for DJs to squeeze cash out of hapless clubbers.
When Lao-tse wrote that 'the sage is ruthless and treats the people as straw dogs,' he provided an epigraph for the cruel frivolities of John Hawkes's and John Barth's latest fiction, in which the hapless characters are raped, carved up, burned with cigarettes, bestialized. Straw Dogs
Grendel this monster grim was called, march-riever {1e} mighty, in moorland living, in fen and fastness; fief of the giants the hapless wight a while had kept since the Creator his exile doomed. Beowulf
The first episode sees the wannabe apprentices tasked with selling cheap souvenir tat to hapless London tourists. The Sun
How wretched are lovers all," Hapless are lovers all e'en even in the sepulchre, tombed in their tombs, The Life of Sir Richard Burton
Who knows what pressure that may bring on a hapless opponent? Times, Sunday Times
The signal lights blinking only amber meant that one hapless policeman made a valiant effort to control traffic which seemed to swamp him from all directions.
Yukie Fujimoto, a mysterious woman in scarlet, points her index finger at the hapless hero.
The so-called street vendors we see are not as economically hapless as we are meant to believe.
In other words, I would say that idolatry not only dishonors God and demeans the idolater; it ultimately leads to the destruction of the hapless idol itself.
The duck has qualities - nay, powers - that bamboozle the hapless magician and his assistant.
And don't get me started on the hapless server who warms up my cup for me with more tepid water.
The hapless dad 's trousers and pants were snagged and wrenched off. The Sun
Some copy writer in the park service waxed poetic and referred to the people who are pulled out to sea never to be seen again as "luckless" (or "hapless," I can't remember now), as if the sleeper wave were a particularly horrific agent of fate, which I guess it is. Sonoma Coast
Ten years ago he was a hapless drug addict. The Sun
A hapless despatcher then starts to try and get a location, cutting out other units attempting to respond. Square Peg - Round Hole « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Tolstoy set out for Germany in 1857, anxious to study social conditions that he might learn how to raise the hapless serfs of Russia, bound, patient and inarticulate, at the feet of landowners, longing for independence, perhaps, when they suffered any terrible act of injustice, but patient in the better times when there was food and warmth and a master of comparatively unexacting temper. Heroes of Modern Europe
The old bruiser yesterday did what he does best - deliver a barnstorming, end-of-conference speech packed with one-liners brutally aimed at the hapless Tories and shifty Liberal Democrats.
The government – that is, the hapless FDIC – puts up 85 per cent of $5 million to buy this – namely, $4,250,000. The Free Market, Financial Style: How the Scam Works
Hector, a loving husband and somewhat hapless schmoe, is relaxing in his yard when he spies through his binoculars a young woman removing her top in the woods. MOVIE REVIEW: Timecrimes Directed by Nacho Vigalongo
The present actions of the hapless Joe Punter are good reasons to be bullish on shares.
Timing and Late Trading: When Eliot Spitzer was New York Attorney General and earned the handle Sheriff of Wall Street, he uncovered how hedge funds were maneuvering around trading rules like a Ferrari speeding around the hapless shmoes stuck in midtown traffic. Les Leopold: Is Corruption on Wall Street All in the Eyes of the Beholder?
She had a cold and a smear of phosphorescent snot lay on her upper lip, a hapless, inoffensive leak that I was responsible for. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
Guys in furry bunny suits jumping out of nowhere to take out hapless victims. Mad Dog Movies « A night of bunnies
Co-star Jeff Bridges is a hapless Columbia math professor who turns to jelly in the presence of beautiful women.
What! hapless Polymestor, who hath stricken thee? who hath reft thine eves of sight, staining the pupils with blood? who hath slain these children? whoe'er he was, fierce must have been his wrath against thee and thy children. Hecuba
Also from Miike, FanTasia screened Gozu, a film that begins with a crazed gangster who hallucinates that a tiny Chihuahua is ‘a trained Yakuza attack dog’ and smashes the hapless creature against a restaurant window.
He reverted back into draconic form and launched himself high into the sky, gaining altitude, then descending on the hapless one-horn in the kind of deadly dive dragons and accipiter hawks had in common. The Elvenbane
I pitied the hapless patient and commiserated with the unhappy house officer, unsettled by the echoes of my own mistakes.
The boy, hapless but lovable, is drawn with exaggerated features, thick lips and wide-open eyes. Balloon Juice » 2005 » June
Like her and many others of our generation, I knew all the old gang pretty well but have met only a handful of today's lot, Maginnes, the Attwoods, Hanna, Dallat, Ritchie, McGrady, McDonnell and yes the "hapless" - (unkind and overstated) - Durkan. Slugger O'Toole
Like the figures of usurers at Dijon, the sculptures at Mainz stood as explicit warnings for men and women to steer clear from vices so as to avoid becoming like their hapless sculptured counterparts.
Each bench holds a tragic little operetta of thwarted desire and hapless yearning. Times, Sunday Times
But the hapless dad is not the first ink owner to wish they had invested in a dictionary before branding themselves for life. The Sun
His chapter on North Korea is especially devastating, recounting the State Department's persistent mistakes and even duplicities in hapless pursuit of a pledge from Pyongyang to end its nuclear weapons program. Mission Accomplished
Thanks to a summer that threatens to get more scorching with each passing day, the hapless Bangalorean doesn't have any other choice.
For the hapless birds and bees, wildlife scientists are plotting what they call assisted migrations . Climate Change Is Inevitable. Get Used to It
Why, e'en so: and now my Lady Worm's; chapless, and knocked about the mazard with a sexton's spade: here's fine revolution, an we had the trick to see't. Hamlet
Such is the snare whereinto she will fall, such is the deadly doom that waits the hapless maid, nor shall she from the curse escape. Medea
In the decades since, the record's off-key vocals and hapless rhythms have made it both a musical punch line and, remarkably, a contrarian rallying point for inscrutable art. Sour Notes On Stage
A hapless bunch of misfitting cretans in a modern day world that is lost and just cannot find itself. Think Progress » VIDEO: Audience Snubs Bush Attack Line, Cheney Gives Standing Ovation
The charge of "floozie" came this time from Carl Butts, who hadn't forgotten they'd been talking about the soap-opera life of the hapless Jane Wyman. The End of the Pier
She is not a hapless victim of anyone else's actions - she makes her own luck. The Sun
It is a stirring, brutal tale of conspiracy and intrigue, treachery and dissent, the overthrow of a hapless leader named Duncan.
Remember what Antoine de Boursin did to the hapless employees at Bunsen Burners International?
It's the tale of Malcolm, an art school drop out who persuades his hapless friends to join his cockeyed crusade against the system.
Clytemnestra, hateful child of Tyndareus, bare; hapless Electra is the name my countrymen call me. Electra
That lesson was drilled into the hapless Galway champions yesterday by a supremely drilled Birr side.
The haplessly inept former Alaska governor and VP candidate is a media hot ticket item; a multi-millionaire; and a rallying point for millions of Christian fundamentalist, rightside zanies and disgruntled GOP conservatives who detest Obama's policies. Earl Ofari Hutchinson: The Beck Bash Has Worked Wonders -- for Beck
Chapter 62 consists of a single word, "hapless" - the only word Orion's abridger cut from the chapter, trimming a 105-word sentence to 104; the book's first sentence is "methodically"; the final hunt for the white whale dissolves into pure punctuation. Brit Lit Blogs
In the middle of all these bureaucratic doings, the hapless bus commuters suddenly find themselves shelterless from the elements during their wait for the erratic city buses.
Without hapless stationmaster, also do not have lucky stationmaster.
There are also a few actors and models and one hapless lady who has been assigned by the convention center folks to go up and down the aisles with a pushcart of snacks to sell.
He then plundered further goals after 28 and 35 minutes against a hapless home defence. The Sun
It also grounds the film in a reality rarely afforded these types of genre outtings (except for the preposterous moment where our hapless cameraman is dispatched by the giant beast, somehow sneaking behind him unnoticed long enough to get the poor fool into his gapping maw). Flixnjoystix.com! » 2008 » April
AMONG SERIOUS kayakers, the very words ‘sit-on-top kayak’ elicit visions of tourists haplessly paddling rental boats in dismal circles on man-made lakes.
There is a stark contrast between the unassuming actor and his hapless on-screen characters. Times, Sunday Times
He then plundered further goals after 28 and 35 minutes against a hapless home defence. The Sun
The swing to Gore in the recounts in Broward and hapless Palm Beach counties helped cement the party too.
Yet it is hard not to conclude that there is another factor at work; after all, people are not merely hapless victims of structural trends. Times, Sunday Times
Khan was in irrepressible form from the start, raining in fast and accurate punches from every angle, to leave the hapless Korean stunned.
In other words, I would say that idolatry not only dishonors God and demeans the idolater; it ultimately leads to the destruction of the hapless idol itself.
So while he comes out looking like the hapless victim of wilful misinterpretation, Carol is portrayed as mentally fragile and misguided, if not downright crazy.
I'm weary of his monotone droning as he reads yet another story of yet another hapless, submissive male being dominated by yet another psychotic nympho.
First a formidable cartel makes a tight combine and launches an advertisement blitz against the hapless rivals.
Both were hapless victims of the growing violence of immigrant gangs, according to police. Times, Sunday Times
The hapless matador eventually managed to leave the arena under heavy police protection; the fate of the bull was not documented.
Now it is ready to once again suck the water out of more hapless slugs. Archive 2009-05-01
A part of what's comic about Eddie is also what's sympathetic about him: namely, he's vulnerable, and his haplessness survives his youth. An Interview With John Irving
And he feared that overt papal condemnation might look well, but would close down other options, and would rebound on hapless victims by provoking retaliation. The Times Literary Supplement
A few will have headliner status thrust upon them, as has happened with the hapless Aaron Barschak.
About a fifth of the infested seedpods also contained the larvae of a small chalcid wasp, Spintherus leguminium, parasitic on the hapless weevils. Wildwood
Our hapless heroes are back - but not in Berkshire. The Sun
Such marriages do not last longer than a year and then the hapless girls return with a child.
Why, een so; and now my Lady Worms; chapless, and knockd about the mazzard8 with a sextons spade. Act V. Scene I
Their physicality seems further diminished by the glass vitrines within which they dangle, boxes that lend them a disturbingly contradictory sense of hapless menace.
This hapless creature had never experienced a moment of pleasure.
They also miss that it isn't "just like" their partisan foes calling the hapless Dubya "Chimpy McHitlerBurton". Today's blogging has a theme... I see.
Speer is no hapless victim caught in sadistic forces beyond his control.
Both wingers scored against hapless Swindon. The Sun
The ensuing race to the deadline is a pacy affair that alternates between the hapless Tamara's frequent recourse to her thesaurus S*nday, she reckons, is just the place to scatter words such as "chthonic" and "hermeneutic" and Tait's grim determination to keep her would-be profiler at bay, particularly from her rather murky private life. The Spoiler by Annalena McAfee – review
He then plundered further goals after 28 and 35 minutes against a hapless home defence. The Sun
The courtyard will play host to the dreamscape of the book's protagonist, the haplessly bombastic Ignatius J. Karen Dalton-Beninato: The Goddess Fortuna in an Attempt to Make Sense of It All
By way of proof that some human values are indeed universal, the crowd react to the sight of the hapless official retreating to a neutral corner for treatment between rounds with gales of delighted laughter.
Down on the beach, accessible behind the 10th green, and especially in the small, wooded ravine in front of the 15th tee, there were stray balls foozled by hapless amateurs, who were presumably too mortified to halt play and look for them.
Some went as far as singing besura love songs outside the hapless girl's house.
The hapless travellers have to part with at least two to three rupees more for want of change.
Carrot-munching Bugs Bunny was always being pursued by his human nemesis, hunter Elmer Fudd; yet, time and time again, Bugs would narrowly escape, outwitting the hapless Fudd.
One man has received a particularly generous gift, courtesy of a hapless bank clerk. Times, Sunday Times
One of the moat brilliant of modern French writers [1] has recently remarked that, in spite of the number of years which have elapsed since the grave closed over the sorrows of Marie Antoinette, and of the almost unbroken series of exciting events which have marked the annals of France in the interval, the interest excited by her story is as fresh and engrossing as ever; that such as Hecuba and Andromache were to the ancients, objects never named to inattentive ears, never contemplated without lively sympathy, such still is their hapless queen to all honest and intelligent Frenchmen. The Life of Marie Antoinette
The player then haplessly wanders the mazelike hallways, which are populated with perky yet zombielike interns who are all utterly incapable of telling him or her where an exit is located.
The merit of our justice system is not how it treats ‘us,’ but how it treats the hapless alien or those disfavored and accused of the worst of crimes.
But to the public he was a hapless hero. Times, Sunday Times
And,and,and,and,all you can hope for,is some footage of a hapless berk of a shelf stacker,dumping a zillion bottles of zindfandel all over the floor of a convenience store. Why we should believe Nick Clegg when he promises to restore liberties stolen by Labour
Pitt is playing one of his loose-limbed slacker roles, Jerry Welbach, a hapless bagman already in debt to the criminal fraternity and now ordered to do one last mobster job south of the border.
Any horrible things that happen to these hapless characters are my fault!
I had quite a bit more sympathy for Brendan, the hapless teenaged supermarket checker, than did the author of the book.
The hapless Christians mixed burning limestone and drew carts like horses, in between brutal beatings, from dawn to dusk.
But the hapless dad is not the first ink owner to wish they had invested in a dictionary before branding themselves for life. The Sun
But England will take what they can from a 12-try romp against the hapless Canadians.
We checked out a favorite old movie starring a bunch of hapless cockneys trying to nick some gold in Italy.
And yes, we got ourselves kidnapped by a bunch of off-duty and retired soldiers who were enjoying a Friday beating up hapless journalists (and boy, were we showing no hap at all) far too much.
It is a stirring, brutal tale of conspiracy and intrigue, treachery and dissent, the overthrow of a hapless leader named Duncan.
The implacable Destiny which consigns the brothers to mutual enmity and mutual destruction, for the guilt of a past generation, involving a Mother and a Sister in their ruin, spreads a sombre hue over all the poem; we are not unmoved by the characters of the hostile Brothers, and we pity the hapless and amiable Beatrice, the victim of their feud. The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works
That is also when the omnipresent stray dogs are more interested in their siesta than in chasing hapless wayfarers.
The hapless bride will take, ay, take the golden crown that is to be her ruin; with her own hand will she lift and place upon her golden locks the garniture of death. Medea
When the hapless youth who lacked the aiguillette approached the presence, he heard a very high voice exclaim, "Who is this d-- d fellow? Collections and Recollections
It's one of the legends of motoring that early VW Beetles lacked even a gas gauge, the hapless owner having to use a dipstick to check whether there was enough fuel in the tank to get home.
‘Not one of the boys went to his aid, or thereafter summoned help, or displayed any concern for their hapless victim,’ said Mr Martin.
And he feared that overt papal condemnation might look well, but would close down other options, and would rebound on hapless victims by provoking retaliation. The Times Literary Supplement
Can't you ever do that sort of thing now? asked the boy, with a pitying look at these hapless creatures debarred from the joys and perils of manly sports. Rose in Bloom
Hapless Ufens is fallen, not to see our shame; corpse and armour are in Teucrian hands. The Aeneid of Virgil
Standing at the head of our second - grade class that morning , John Evans was a hapless sight.
That star student Hermione Granger seems perfectly self-sufficient with her own autodidactic learning and can conjure enough spells to consistently rescue her two hapless male counterparts. Ruth Starkman: Harry Potter: College Drop Out?
Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman star as two hapless criminals who embark on a land rush on the western frontier.
In fact, the security personnel found themselves hapless because they have the duty without power, answerability and accountability. Nepal: Disappearing Security in Occlusion
The hapless milquetoast is wanted for being an" alien" and he is captured by a band of guerrillas who want to recruit him to their cause.
Culpepper roused a slumberous offense just enough in the fourth quarter Sunday, directing a 50-yard drive that set up a field goal to help Miami beat hapless Tennessee 13-10. USATODAY.com - Football - Tennessee vs. Miami
This hapless creature had never experienced a moment of pleasure.
I'm wondering if you or anybody else in here has some thoughts on how to make sure the criticism that's certain to erupt is pointed directly at Sims where it rightly belongs and not squandered by targeting the skeleton crew of hapless victims down there trying to keep Elections afloat? Sound Politics: Ward of the State
And to the hapless cyclist immersed in the world of buzzbuzzblahblahblah, the approach of a cuntish Land Rover or Vauxhall Corsa being driven in a cuntish manner by an oblivious, mouth-breathing motorist is a deadly peril. Why the iPod Will Never Catch On « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog
A knot of blurred bodies suggests a huge, vile spider consuming a hapless victim. Times, Sunday Times
The hapless matador eventually managed to leave the arena under heavy police protection; the fate of the bull was not documented.
It was scavenging for food, eating any hapless tiny creatures it came upon.
This is the kind of inspired initiative that might have saved hapless Henry but what flag would he have proposed we wave?
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London routed hapless Halifax to record their third successive Super League home win.
The strategic, cerebral, super-competent boss is turned into the hopeless, helpless and hapless semi-skilled labourer. Times, Sunday Times
Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman star as two hapless criminals who embark on a land rush on the western frontier.
Tender and gallant, you've rescued these hapless insects from all sorts of scrapes and misadventures.
The money they control comes out of their own pockets, not from the rich coffers of a corporate treasury or from hapless public investors.
And that hapless son of Ham, who happened to be just crossing the main-deck, heard a marlingspike, which by ill luck was lying at hand, flying past his ears. Westward Ho!
Ah hapless wife! thou callest on my son who lieth in the tomb. The Trojan Women
In the fall, he dominated as a wide receiver on the football team, grabbing lobs over hapless defenders in the corner of the end zone.
The real Smith started out in podunk Texas as flat-chested, dark-haired, unlovely Vickie Lynn Hogan with an abusive father, a hapless mother - and zero prospects. Archive 2007-02-11
The hapless bird fluttered and flapped around the astonished patrons whilst desperately trying to gain its freedom.
A motley crew of hapless musicians and street performers are seen trying to cheer up citizens in what appears to be a breadline.
The mechanicals are perfectly hapless, clumsy and inept and John Ramm as Bottom makes a brilliant ass of himself.
White is part of a strong cast that includes Pamela Isaacs as the central figure, Queen, Kevin Ramsey as her hapless lover and Chuck Cooper as Memphis the superpimp. Is Broadway Rhythm Back?
It's unfair to blame the hapless candidate, of course, for her party's shortcomings.
A pulpit has never been so expensive for either the pulpiteer nor his hapless congregation.
She refuses, saying she needs to stay with her rather hapless boyfriend.
Stanley's two-goal cushion was eventually restored on 27 minutes when Craney's 25-yard drive bobbled under the hapless Lavin.
One of the essential skills is identifying the difference between a potential threat, and a hapless scallywag.
For the professor, taking care of these hapless children has remained a life long passion.
She usually plays the hapless sidekick to a comedy hero. The Sun
The cause was a light plane flown by two hapless pilots from rural Pennsylvania, who mistakenly strayed into the restricted airspace surrounding Washington DC.
The floor, walls, and any hapless machine that happened to be nearby erupted into fire and smoke.
What! hapless Polymestor, who hath stricken thee? who hath reft thine eves of sight, staining the pupils with blood? who hath slain these children? whoe'er he was, fierce must have been his wrath against thee and thy children. Hecuba
Instead, he slowed, hovered vertically, and spread his wings as far as they would go, using them as scoops, to drive the hapless, cowlike civilians back toward the edge of the roof. The Sinister Six Combo
A hapless motorboater has had to be rescued by a lifeboat after repeatedly circling the Isle of Sheppey thinking he was sailing around the UK coast. YBW News
Dealing with conflicting interests makes it into a mass of nervous ticks, quirks and foibles, lurching haplessly hither and yon in an anxious sweat, shouting ‘Like me!’
‘Not one of the boys went to his aid, or thereafter summoned help, or displayed any concern for their hapless victim,’ said Mr Martin.
After all, failure to do so could leave them as hapless bystanders in a game of musical chairs which may be nearing its climax.
They also told him to leave a corridor through the maze of tables for hapless pedestrians. The Times Literary Supplement
You will sometimes feel like a hapless schlub next to her.
They also told him to leave a corridor through the maze of tables for hapless pedestrians. The Times Literary Supplement
The Mush Stage depicts a free-form puppet theater where, around a hapless stick-figure marionette, float a plethora of scrims, stage maquettes, painted backdrops and hinged windows.
Ten years ago he was a hapless drug addict. The Sun
Many in Germany saw the modest 74 - year - old as a hapless victim of the credit crunch.
They were helpless, hapless victims. Times, Sunday Times
All the cast were worth their weight in gold but the audience particularly enjoyed Norman Pace's hapless constable Dogberry and his idiotic sidekicks.
One man has received a particularly generous gift, courtesy of a hapless bank clerk. Times, Sunday Times
It has no future and is bulldozing its past in a desperate attempt to lull hapless inhabitants into a narcotised state of believing nothing will ever change.
He is like the hapless pedestrian about to turn unawares face first into an expertly placed custard pie.
The hapless Sailor briefly stopped the onslaught when he scored three minutes later, but to no avail.

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