Hapless in a sentence

A clueless invasion had been followed by a still more hapless occupation.

An error-strewn, hapless 4-1 defeat at home to Tottenham Hotspur on the final day confirmed what was already all-but inevitable.

Australia, and specifically the 215 hapless big emitters, will have to do the impossible, and the Prime Minister needs to start telling them and us that yesterday.

Cork were very lax on the reins at this stage, but Clare let them off the hook and with six minutes remaining Patrick Horgan cut in from the left and unleashed a piledriver that gave the hapless keeper no chance.

Do you know how many hapless children get licks for being restless, “harden” and inattentive?

For Broncos fans, Briscoe was a welcome departure from the Broncos' hapless run of searching for a quarterback who could capably lead their offense.

Government should leave them there but tax them so that from their huge wealth which they probably stole from Nigerians, they would return a little to give succour to the hapless poor.

He certainly wouldn’t have appreciated the joyful Darvel supporters singing “You’re getting sacked in the morning” to Aberdeen’s hapless manager, Jim Goodwin.

He revealed that in his branch, the hapless staff were not only filling up customers’ forms but also forging customers’ signatures on them.

If United’s Europa League run ends this week, it will be in part because of the Englishman’s injury-time own goal against Sevilla: Maguire looked both blameless and hapless, and such things can happen to him.

In six games without him, the team went 2-4 with its wins coming against a hapless LSU team and a Georgia team that was beaten by LSU in the conference tournament.

In the relevant scene, Robb wishes to trap the hapless scientist for his opposition to creating a weapon of even greater murderous power than the fission devices used against Japan.

It also conveys a racist narrative that Black Americans are a hopeless, hapless, and oppressed race who need pity and handouts to succeed,” Owens said.

It was to make quick cash for the owners and then walk away as the saviors of the down and outers, the hapless addicted, and the mentally ill.

No one disputes the Trojans’ turnaround from hapless 4-8 outfit to 11-3 title contender.

The 19-13 victory over a hapless team was one of the ugliest football games I have ever seen.

The Biden administration fumbled the ball at the border, and Republicans wasted no time piling on the hapless DHS secretary.

The episode is a nice change from the norm and demonstrates that Hal isn’t so hapless, while Malcolm gets to best Reese at a sport.

The seemingly mismatched union between Connor, the hapless, oft-forgotten firstborn Roy and his fiancée Willa, a former escort-turned aspiring playwright may be the healthiest partnership on the show.

They also beheaded the Boss' best friend's squeeze, which, again, is still probably not as bad as the stuff the player subjects the hapless population of Santo Lleso to (most notibly with objects of an unspeakable nature) between missions.