Definitions for hapless

hapless hap·less

Spelling: [hap-lis]
IPA: /ˈhæp lɪs/

Hapless is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 194 anagrams from letters in hapless (aehlpss).

Definitions for hapless

adjective

  1. unlucky; luckless; unfortunate.

Origin of hapless

First recorded in 1560-70; hap1 + -less

Examples for hapless

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

Poor, hapless Bernardine could have cried aloud as she listened.

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

But Fortune had not yet exhausted her malice against the hapless Athenians.

And could love do so little at its most unfortunate and hapless ending?

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.

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

hapless as his condition was, he might still pray for mercy, and might possibly find it.

He sprang forward at once towards the hapless boy, dragging the coat with him.

Word Value for hapless
Scrable

12

Words with friends

13

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