haplessness
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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
Irritable, neurotic, decent, confused and sardonic, Larry is a refreshing nod to the kind of spiky haplessness Jack Lemmon mastered.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025
And the dog's occasional haplessness is a nice realistic change from her fearlessness.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 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
At last we hapless men Know all our haplessness all through.
From Poems by Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell
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