haplessness

Example Sentences

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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

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

From Slate • Jun. 28, 2022

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

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