Word: hapless
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...scored three times in the first 12 minutes or so, and didn't ever stop. Fairfield was playing a man down, thanks to a red card late in the first half (memo to Fairfield: playing a man down IS NOT A GOOD THING). Describing its second half effort as "hapless" is too kind...
That left the hapless Bliley to convene a meeting of long-distance lobbyists in the Commerce Committee hearing room on July 13 to convey the grim news. Stunned, the lobbyists began a desperate effort to find someone to whom they could plead their case. "Nobody wants to talk to us," complained a lobbyist for the long-distance coalition early in the week. "Nobody wants to negotiate. Something is fishy here...
...understand why Americans love their sitcoms. The characters are all transparent, and the plots are utterly mundane. Most of the shows follow a hapless person through a never--ending series of embarrassing situation. Still, any attempts at absurd humor falls flat and is generally replaced by ludicrous slapstick...
Apparently impressed with himself, the Unabomber delights in taunting his hapless adversaries. "It doesn't appear that the fbi is going to catch us any time soon," he writes in his letter to the Times. "The fbi is a joke." And to Gelernter, who lost part of a hand, the vision in one eye and the hearing in one ear when the mail bomb exploded, the bomber writes, "If you'd had any brains you would have realized that there are a lot of people out there who resent bitterly the way techno-nerds like you are changing the world...
Arguably, students who got their top choices had a good chance of spending their college years in residential bliss. Still the system failed those hapless, misplaced blocking groups of shy, studious individuals forced to spend three years next to several dozen football players...