How to use "hapless" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "hapless" in popular movie and book plots

  • Although she seems to agree, Jessica immediately steals from the collection plate before forcing it back upon the hapless Bart.  - Bart's Girlfriend
  • He feels put upon by the school's principal, and he views his students as hapless and uninterested in anything he has to teach them.  - The Centaur
  • They employ the hapless but well-meaning Albert, a young man also introduced in The Secret Adversary, as their assistant at the agency.  - Partners in Crime (short story collection)
  • Gabool finishes off Skullgor and comes after the hapless mousemaid.  - Mariel of Redwall
  • He then uses duct tape to secure the hapless Teller to the gravity boot rig.  - Penn & Teller Get Killed
  • William proves a hapless and merciless lord who mishandles the earldom financially and routinely rapes any peasant women he wishes.  - The Pillars of the Earth
  • Omnius then launches capsules containing the retrovirus to infect the planets inhabited by the hapless humans.  - Dune: The Battle of Corrin
  • Meeting Fozzie Bear, who works as a hapless comedian in the El Sleezo Cafe, Kermit invites Fozzie to accompany him.  - The Muppet Movie
  • Getting used to live in a clan and according to its laws, Yamamoto creates a hapless gang out of Ken's buddies.  - Brother (2000 film)
  • Notable amongst these being Goujet, a young metal worker, who wastes his life in unconsummated love of the hapless laundress.  - L'Assommoir
  • At the ballpark, the hapless Senators vow to play their best despite their failings ("Heart").  - Damn Yankees
  • He is committed to a psychiatric hospital along with the frog, who continues serenading the now hapless patient.  - One Froggy Evening
  • Pete Hutter (John Pyper-Ferguson) is a hapless mercenary working for Bly.  - The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
  • Jem's faith in justice becomes badly shaken, as is Atticus', when the hapless Tom is shot and killed while trying to escape from prison.  - To Kill a Mockingbird
  • The hapless Brian is unable to escape his unwanted 'disciples'; even his his mother's house is surrounded by an enormous, enraptured crowd.  - Monty Python's Life of Brian
  • But hapless farmers can be forced to become heroes, and Giles shrewdly makes the best of the situation.  - Farmer Giles of Ham

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