adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Several hapless hikers got caught in the snowstorm.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But Frank Bascombe, for all his hapless domestic incompetence and elaborate self-pity, was interesting and kind of likable.
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I decided to be guided by a modified version of the National Parks Service motto, updated for hapless burglars.
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Some were lost by hapless temps.
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The weary elders of the 1980s take revenge at last upon the hapless victims of the 1960s.
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The world's biggest aircraft-leasing firm will now try to squeeze concessions from its hapless bondholders.
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They came to this swampland and found a team to punish, those hapless New York Jets.