'hapless' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It typically means 'unfortunate' or 'pitiable', and can be used in any context where those words might be used. Example sentence: "The poor, hapless family had no choice but to leave their home in search of a better life."
It doesn't matter what hapless, scraped-together roadkill coalition we end up saddled with this year because the Conservatives will be back in charge come 2020.
He yearned for popular approval, even announcing that he met his second wife, a commoner, at Café Riche.The hapless king might also have met the man there who would eventually depose him.
These turned the story of the band into a surreal sitcom, casting them as a hapless odd couple – Spinal Tap meets Men Behaving Badly.
The contenders for hapless Ed's position are all cut from the same cloth so there has never been a better time for a Scottish Democratic Labour party.
The basics are right: Travers was born Helen Lyndon Goff and called Ginty by her family; her father, Travers Goff (Colin Farrell), was a heavy drinker and a fantasist; she never got over his premature death and romanticised his brief, hapless life (and took his first name as her surname).
He's been the hapless chef, Aubrey, in Mike Leigh's 1990 Life Is Sweet, the last British hangman in 2005's Pierrepoint, and a scowling Winston Churchill in The King's Speech.
The Rossoneri scored a second goal midway through the first half, Nigel de Jong's deflected free-kick wrong-footing the hapless Pomini.
Film-maker Daniel Stoupin took 150,000 shots to capture some coral growing and a hapless dad wishes he had never picked up the camera when he told his three children the news about a new baby.
Related: A dark day for Fifa after claims of arms deals for World Cup votes Blatter loyalists have always said he did not help himself in the bribery culture, that his hapless handling of the Havelange ISL bribe encapsulates his general approach to those raking it in on his watch.
People who don't understand the game think that we sit around wet, cold grounds, eating pies and drinking Bovril, moaning about the huge salaries that the many hapless stars on show are able to command.
As we enter the final reel, our hapless hero brings up an old interview about politics and prison.
