Sentence examples for hapless are from inspiring English sources

In fact, just about the only figures who are neither corrupt nor hapless are Indian.

Hapless was momentarily taken aback.

"Hapless" is a word that must have been invented just to describe Fred Fitch.

That is the caustic view of Dina (Ronit Elkabetz), to whom any interruption — any hint of other lives, however hapless — is a welcome break.

Then, in 1988, when George Bush the elder and Michael Dukakis the hapless were running against each other for President, the Pledge got weaponized.

Hapless was rapidly coming to the conclusion that she didn't actually believe in anything other than being prime minister, so she simply said what she always says.

It was my privilege to see those sluggers park pitch after pitch in the bleachers of Griffith Stadium, further humilating the Senators, for whom "hapless" was coined.

Nobody knows why the hapless Charlie Brown was so hapless.

Many of these hapless captives are their families' breadwinners.

In some cases, these hapless workers are the victims of fly-by-night operations.

Nonetheless, the encounters with this hapless parent are the touchstones of the young man's memory.