Sentence examples for were hapless from inspiring English sources

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were hapless

adjective

Very unlucky; ill-fated.

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In that regard they were hapless.

As a married couple, however, they were hapless.

The defenders were hapless.

Jack Nicholson couldn't handle the ugly truth any longer on Friday night at the Staples Center: His beloved Los Angeles Lakers were hapless.

But most C vaulters were hapless young oafs like me.

England were hapless, aimless and, to be honest, fairly abject.

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The Japanese government has been hapless.

"That's the excuse of the morally compromised, that they're hapless.

On the cusp of adolescence, the narrator of this novel, Miles Adler-Hart, sees himself as a sleuth, but his attempts at surveillance are hapless.

Its few efforts at policymaking including a doomed effort to put the army-run ISI into civilian hands— have mostly been hapless.

And Leung Chun-ying, Hong Kong's current Chief Executive, is hapless.

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