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Example sentences for: hapless
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Tank Abbott, an ill-tempered, 270-pound street fighter, knocks out hapless opponent John Matua in 15 seconds.
Something tells me those hapless Vietnam skulls deserve a better resting place than File Cabinet 24.
After the English annihilated the hapless French (10,000 dead French to a mere 29 Brits, by Bill S.'s count), the English responded by waving their two fingers back at the French in the now-familiar gesture (the American version limits it to the single middle finger).
Retailers seem to turn round wholesale on their hapless customers with outrageous demands.
Shakespeare, at a remove of four centuries, provides a hapless hunting ground for nice misinterpretations, either through misquotation or quoting out of context.