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单词 hapless
释义
haplesshap‧less /ˈhæpləs/ adjective [only before noun] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINhapless
Origin:
1500-1600 hap (HAPPY)
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Several hapless hikers got caught in the snowstorm.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • But Frank Bascombe, for all his hapless domestic incompetence and elaborate self-pity, was interesting and kind of likable.
  • I decided to be guided by a modified version of the National Parks Service motto, updated for hapless burglars.
  • Some were lost by hapless temps.
  • The weary elders of the 1980s take revenge at last upon the hapless victims of the 1960s.
  • The world's biggest aircraft-leasing firm will now try to squeeze concessions from its hapless bondholders.
  • They came to this swampland and found a team to punish, those hapless New York Jets.
literary unlucky:  The hapless passengers were stranded at the airport for three days.
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