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
Finishing a Saturday crossword in under 10 minutes gives me a ridiculously deep sense of pleasure; my ongoing haplessness at cryptics wounds my ego.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 29, 2022
One development underlines Toichi’s haplessness, the other his decency, when the woman turns out to be alive and in need of care.
From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2021
At last we hapless men Know all our haplessness all through.
From Poems by Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell
