hapless

• “Back before they were Super Bowl champs, some called the hapless team the "Aints" and in shame would pull paper bags over their heads.”

  LocalNews8.com - Local News 8 - Headlines

• “Chapter 62 consists of a single word, "hapless" - the only word Orion's abridger cut from the chapter, trimming a 105-word sentence to 104; the book's first sentence is "methodically"; the final hunt for the white whale dissolves into pure punctuation.”

  Brit Lit Blogs

• “Like her and many others of our generation, I knew all the old gang pretty well but have met only a handful of today's lot, Maginnes, the Attwoods, Hanna, Dallat, Ritchie, McGrady, McDonnell and yes the "hapless" - (unkind and overstated) - Durkan.”

  Slugger O'Toole

• “The highlight of her reign of terror: The now-infamous "Saving Private Ryan" interpretive dance, part of a longer sequence, assembled to celebrate nominated film scores, which The Post's reviewer described as a "hapless, protracted gaffe.”

  The Washington Post: Lists: The Academy Awards' worst-ever musical numbers

• “Should we call the hapless storyteller an anecdope?”

  Word Fugitives

• “The government – that is, the hapless FDIC – puts up 85 per cent of $5 million to buy this – namely, $4,250,000.”

  The Free Market, Financial Style: How the Scam Works

• “They also miss that it isn't "just like" their partisan foes calling the hapless Dubya "Chimpy McHitlerBurton".”

  Today's blogging has a theme... I see.

• “From ‘cowboy up’ to ‘lawyer up,’ Bush is a man for whom the word hapless is effusive praise.”

  Think Progress » Bush advised to ‘lawyer up.’

• “Hats off to the keeper I may or may not have described as "hapless" at some time in print during the last few weeks.”

  Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph

• “Still, at least uni-boy (otherwise known as my hapless brother) made me look better by sending a measly Mother's Day text.”

  Evening Mail news round-up

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