haplessly

hapless | American Dictionary

hapless
adjective
us/ˈhæp·ləs/
unlucky:
hapless victims of the earthquake

Examples of hapless

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Hapless borderliners were also caught up in the closure.
Thus, the hapless crier, for one unlucky moment, became the incarnation of a detested policy and paid the price for decisions made by superiors.
Up-country traders and porters were makers of their own destiny, and were not hapless casualties of change.
Usually the ' boy ' would lie in wait, often in a tree, to capture hapless ' smugglers ' for surrender to the soldiers or customs officials.
The occasional clarity achieved by the artist was never achieved in concert by the hapless subjects of modern painting.
This will no doubt sound like an astonishing claim to those acquainted with the passenger pigeon's hapless history.
Battlefields are dangerous places, for patients as well as hapless civilians in war.
Yes, the doctor here is the stolid skipper while the layman is the hapless landlubber.
At the same time, he is presented as a kind of hapless innocent on the domestic front, duped occasionally by his servants and not adept at housekeeping.
And he is happy to subscribe to a linear narrative of technological progress in which he positions the hapless brush, referring to it as 'not particularly advanced'.
The hapless singer chosen to solve the puzzle would initially try to sing the pitches given, but very soon would find that they are utterly wrong.
Their effects are not limited to the individual user who brings things on himself, as any hapless victim of a drunken driver can attest.
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