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Example sentences for: hapless

How can you use “hapless” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

McCain : The President of the United States is not a hapless bystander.
He's taken a character who's truly dim and callow and found a way to give him a certain hapless appeal.
Worse, Grant's linguistically hapless gangster--Mickey Blue Eyes--never makes a climactic reappearance, so the filmmakers waste their best invention.
His take on the official report: "a splendid libretto by Kenneth Starr, a Greek chorus of television commentators … hapless walk-ons, clandestine comings and goings … a May-December romance."
Nor can the farmers be depicted as hapless bystanders blindsided by an unfair change in government policy.