Sentence examples for but hapless from inspiring English sources

A fond but hapless father.

But "Hapless Hooligan" transcends that sophomoric aspect by being elaborately enthralling.

(If she's too hard on anyone, it's her own character, the game but hapless, "Star Trek -loving Jessica).

At 15 she has a baby and marries the father (Steve Zahn), a well-meaning but hapless addict named Ray.

But that marriage foundered as the exiles undertook a decade of sincere but hapless scheming against Mr. Hussein.

Northup's kindly but hapless first owner, William Ford (Benedict Cumberbatch), protects him for a while, but is forced to pass him to the sadistic Edwin Epps (Fassbender).

Good god I am sick of Dr Alex. His desperation to get a woman to kiss him willingly is becoming palpable, and where before he may have come across as sweet-but-hapless, he's now just another prick who'll call you a bitch when you tell him to "get the fuck out of my Uber, you weirdo" because you let him buy you a drink.

Personally, as I have already remarked, I found her obnoxious, but a government under the loveable but hilariously hapless Michael Foot seemed unthinkable.

But the hapless chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Donald Anderson, cannot oblige.

But this hapless approach won't lift anyone's skirts.

But that hapless red button kept getting in the way.