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

Pierce Brosnan and Ellen Barkin play the parental units with unabashed, even unhinged, broadness, against which Devine’s haplessness really sings.

From New York Times • Jul. 6, 2023

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

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2023

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