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hapless

/hap-lis/US // ˈhæp lɪs //UK // (ˈhæplɪs) //

拙劣的,蹩脚的,拙劣,蹩脚

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : unlucky; luckless; unfortunate.

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Examples

  • Stewart’s hapless journey provided the first details of a shadowy network of brokers and investors who were pursuing billions in loosely monitored contracts from government agencies desperately trying to deal with the virus.

  • Starring Eddie Murphy as Prince Akeem and Arsenio Hall as his hapless best friend, the movie follows as the royal searches for his queen in Queens, New York.

  • One of those people is Lethem’s hapless hero, Sandy Duplessis.

  • So their “Monday Night Football” matchup in the Meadowlands with the hapless, hopeless Jets arrives at a good time for them.

  • I had written about my first, hapless foray into the woods for Quartz, and the article attracted the attention of Rinella’s publicists.

  • It helps that Wendy Davis is a hapless opponent, but as a test proving it can be done, any success is welcomed.

  • “At first I was happy to be learning to read,” explains the hapless adult illiterate Office Barbrady in an early episode.

  • It becomes a hapless gesture of uninformed social media departments who perceive the potential of engagement without consequences.

  • With them are thousands of other hapless mall-goers, descending rapidly into deadly anarchy.

  • Finally, Cleese goose-steps out of the dining room as the hapless Germans cringe and sob.

  • Lawrence, when the day was lost, rode back to prepare the hapless Europeans in the city for the hazard that now threatened.

  • In the dressing-room beyond the larger room where that strange interview was to take place, the hapless man lay on a bed.

  • In some vague way Jessie connected the mystery with the hapless creature whom she knew now to be the King of Asturia.

  • It was into a cell adjoining that which the hapless queen had occupied that Madame Roland was cast.

  • He was soon at full speed again, on his futile race: a hapless idealist in pursuit of lost dreams.