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Six example sentences with hapless, each labelled with its topic.
The tutorial level pits you against a hapless goblin who drops his club and flees before you take a single step.
Gaming
Chaplin built a career on the hapless tramp who loses the apartment, the job, and the girl by lunchtime.
Movies
Our hapless guide lost the map, missed the ferry, and left us waiting six hours in the rain.
Travel
The hapless expansion team lost its first fourteen games, three of them after leading at halftime.
Basketball
Dickens fills his novels with hapless clerks who lose their positions through no fault but bad timing.
Literature
The hapless contestant dropped her souffle, burned the sauce, and still smiled when the judges came around.
Cooking
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