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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.
Seemingly terrorized by her hooting-mad, derelict father (Robert Duvall, in a hilarious cameo), Doss doffs her duds at the first opportunity and promptly has the hapless attorney on a very tight retainer.
By fall of 1972, in full contest with the hapless George McGovern, Nixon was enjoying 60 percent-plus popularity.
[but] there's some passion in the action, a lilt to the chases, a fluid lyricism in the way the beasts move across hapless humans who cross their paths" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ). (See David Edelstein's review in Slate and The Lost World site.)
If those subway ads are more effective against the cautious Martins than against the reckless Maxwells, then they are a threat to the hapless Joans.