haplessness
Example Sentences
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New York went over half a century of misery and haplessness without a title.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
I confess my haplessness because getting new trees wrong is part of learning to love them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2023
While that is possible, few have the stomach for another lengthy leadership contest, which would only reinforce the party’s image of haplessness.
From New York Times ● Oct. 15, 2022
In this sports-mad city, where heartbreak is tradition, this outfitter’s hottest items used to be therapeutic resignations of the Bengals’ haplessness: “Hue + Lewis and the Boos,” “Seize the Meh,” “Time for Some Dey Drinking.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 29, 2022
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 Charles Brockden Brown
