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
And yet, on the page, under the right conditions, haplessness is the thing we gather around like a biomass stove and gently warm our hands over.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 26, 2022
At last we hapless men Know all our haplessness all through.
From Poems by Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell
