haplessness

Example Sentences

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I confess my haplessness because getting new trees wrong is part of learning to love them.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2023

And the dog's occasional haplessness is a nice realistic change from her fearlessness.

From Salon • Aug. 10, 2022

The Meadows Hutchinson described was a defeated man coming to terms with his defeat, haplessness, and substantial legal danger.

From Slate • Jun. 28, 2022

He also brings his characters’ haplessness to the fore by portraying them as not-so-happy campers lost in a confusing grown-up world.

From Washington Post • Nov. 1, 2021

Then I heaped upon my guards the most vehement reproaches, or betook myself to wailings on the haplessness of my condition.

From Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale by Brown, Charles Brockden