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Definition of hapless in English: haplessadjective ˈhapləsˈhæpləs (especially of a person) unfortunate. （尤指人）不幸的，运气不好的 the hapless victims of the disaster Example sentencesExamples - A few will have headliner status thrust upon them, as has happened with the hapless Aaron Barschak.
- Such marriages do not last longer than a year and then the hapless girls return with a child.
- How much compensation was offered to the poor hapless farmers is not a state secret.
- The hapless travellers have to part with at least two to three rupees more for want of change.
- Speer is no hapless victim caught in sadistic forces beyond his control.
- It is not merely hapless tourists that are suffering in this unstable climate.
- Jeffrey is pretty hapless, and a very funny spoof of an irritating circuit queen.
- Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman star as two hapless criminals who embark on a land rush on the western frontier.
- What about his grotesque decision to psychoanalyse his own daughter, the hapless Anna?
- He would then regale his hapless customers with stories of his own daring deeds.
- Remember what Antoine de Boursin did to the hapless employees at Bunsen Burners International?
- To be fair to the hapless reporter, I think he was rather embarrassed about this assignment.
- After all, failure to do so could leave them as hapless bystanders in a game of musical chairs which may be nearing its climax.
- Then when we got there a swarm of locust like marketeers engulfed our hapless family.
- This is the kind of inspired initiative that might have saved hapless Henry but what flag would he have proposed we wave?
- It's unfair to blame the hapless candidate, of course, for her party's shortcomings.
- Some went as far as singing besura love songs outside the hapless girl's house.
- She refuses, saying she needs to stay with her rather hapless boyfriend.
- The hapless Sailor briefly stopped the onslaught when he scored three minutes later, but to no avail.
- For the professor, taking care of these hapless children has remained a life long passion.
Synonyms unfortunate, unlucky, luckless, out of luck, ill-starred, ill-fated, jinxed, cursed, doomed unhappy, forlorn, wretched, miserable, woebegone informal down on one's luck literary star-crossed
Derivativesadverb The player then haplessly wanders the mazelike hallways, which are populated with perky yet zombielike interns who are all utterly incapable of telling him or her where an exit is located. Example sentencesExamples - AMONG SERIOUS kayakers, the very words ‘sit-on-top kayak’ elicit visions of tourists haplessly paddling rental boats in dismal circles on man-made lakes.
- However, there is also at least an equal number, certainly among Tory councillors, who believe his sell-by date was passed long ago and that he should be removed from the selection shelf, something he haplessly confirms himself.
- Dealing with conflicting interests makes it into a mass of nervous ticks, quirks and foibles, lurching haplessly hither and yon in an anxious sweat, shouting ‘Like me!’
- From the costumes of the patrons and the protestors to the ersatz Mariachi band (presumably a tip of the hat to Kahlo) strumming haplessly to patrons within the fenced in compound, costumes were the flavour of the night.
noun Anger shone through, Thom didn't even bother re-writing the lyrics for ‘Go to Sleep’, they appear as he penned them - haplessness dipped in blood. Example sentencesExamples - Anderson was also behind many of the raids on Dundee's goal, and it was to his credit that, despite Aberdeen's early haplessness at the back, that they were still threatening at the other end.
- But they simultaneously helped to elevate the intellectual tone of the early stages of the primary season and to provide inadvertent entertainment through the haplessness of their candidacies.
- The chaos of the film is summed up by the situation the writer of the screenplay (played with brilliant haplessness by Phillip Seymour Hoffman) finds himself in.
- But this surface haplessness belied an extremely successful money operation and a secret weapon: his debating skill.
OriginLate Middle English: from hap1 (in the early sense 'good fortune') + -less. happy from Middle English: Before the 14th century you could be glad but not happy. The word is from hap ‘fortune, chance’, which entered English a century or more earlier and which is no longer used in everyday English, except in hapless (Late Middle English) meaning ‘unfortunate’, its development happen (Late Middle English) and perhaps. To be happy was at first to be favoured by fortune—but came to refer to feelings of pleasure in the early 16th century. Happy as a sandboy is said because sandboys (who would have been grown men as well as boys) were ‘happy’ or ‘jolly’ because they were habitually drunk. A dictionary of slang terms published in 1823 explains that jolly as a sandboy referred to ‘a merry fellow who has tasted a drop’. This is reflected in a pub in Charles Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop, published in 1840: ‘The Jolly Sandboys was a small road-side inn…with a sign, representing three Sandboys increasing their jollity.’ Sandboys sold sand for use in building, for household chores such as cleaning pots and pans, and to spread on floors to soak up spillages, especially in pubs. In Australia you can also be as happy as Larry, which may be connected with the renowned 19th-century boxer Larry Foley, or owe something to larry (late 19th century), a dialect word meaning ‘a state of excitement’ that appears in the novels of Thomas Hardy. A North American equivalent is as happy as a clam or as happy as a clam at high water: when the tide is high, the clams are covered by seawater and are able to feed to their hearts' content.
Definition of hapless in US English: haplessadjectiveˈhæpləsˈhapləs (especially of a person) unfortunate. （尤指人）不幸的，运气不好的 if you're one of the many hapless car buyers who've been shafted Example sentencesExamples - This is the kind of inspired initiative that might have saved hapless Henry but what flag would he have proposed we wave?
- It's unfair to blame the hapless candidate, of course, for her party's shortcomings.
- After all, failure to do so could leave them as hapless bystanders in a game of musical chairs which may be nearing its climax.
- It is not merely hapless tourists that are suffering in this unstable climate.
- A few will have headliner status thrust upon them, as has happened with the hapless Aaron Barschak.
- How much compensation was offered to the poor hapless farmers is not a state secret.
- The hapless travellers have to part with at least two to three rupees more for want of change.
- To be fair to the hapless reporter, I think he was rather embarrassed about this assignment.
- Some went as far as singing besura love songs outside the hapless girl's house.
- She refuses, saying she needs to stay with her rather hapless boyfriend.
- Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman star as two hapless criminals who embark on a land rush on the western frontier.
- Such marriages do not last longer than a year and then the hapless girls return with a child.
- He would then regale his hapless customers with stories of his own daring deeds.
- For the professor, taking care of these hapless children has remained a life long passion.
- Speer is no hapless victim caught in sadistic forces beyond his control.
- Then when we got there a swarm of locust like marketeers engulfed our hapless family.
- The hapless Sailor briefly stopped the onslaught when he scored three minutes later, but to no avail.
- What about his grotesque decision to psychoanalyse his own daughter, the hapless Anna?
- Remember what Antoine de Boursin did to the hapless employees at Bunsen Burners International?
- Jeffrey is pretty hapless, and a very funny spoof of an irritating circuit queen.
Synonyms unfortunate, unlucky, luckless, out of luck, ill-starred, ill-fated, jinxed, cursed, doomed
OriginLate Middle English: from hap (in the early sense ‘good fortune’) + -less. |