Hapless - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |ˈhæpləs|  American pronunciation of the word hapless
Brit.  |ˈhæpləs|  British pronunciation of the word hapless

adjective

- deserving or inciting pity (syn: miserable, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched)
a hapless victim

Extra examples

She plays the hapless heroine who is unlucky in love.

...the hapless motorist had barely paid his bill and driven away from the body shop when a truck sideswiped his car...

The hapless passengers were stranded at the airport for three days.

The hapless Humpty Dumpty often crops up as a metaphor for the second law of thermodynamics.

...from atop his horse the warrior hurled a javelin that pierced the chest of his hapless foe...

...there were raspberries from the audience when the hapless actress kept forgetting her lines...

...in high school the in crowd would invariably sneer every time they passed the hapless nerds...

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