Word: hapless
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...prison and rendered even less capable of paying off whatever debts he had incurred, the study card slacker, most likely in a bind because he was unable to get a necessary signature, finds the number of signatures he needs to get hopelessly multiplied. Fines and signatures mount until the hapless victim must deliver up to the Registrar the riches of Croesus and an autograph book worthy of...well, someone with a really big autograph book...
...strongly disagrees with what you're saying, ((Gates)) is in the habit of blurting out, 'That's the stupidest f -- -- ing thing I've ever heard!' People tell stories of Gates spraying saliva into the face of some hapless employee...
Before the revisionist My Fair Lady opened on Broadway, Richard Chamberlain went on the warpath, trying to get his co-star sacked in favor of her understudy. Without having seen the understudy -- but having endured Melissa Errico's hapless Eliza Doolittle -- one can be sure Chamberlain was right about her. Rarely has a plum Broadway role been so ineptly handled. While Errico sings gloriously if unimaginatively, she is an unconvincing Cockney whose linguistic foibles wobble from syllable to syllable, quite a handicap in a show about the social importance of accents. She is plausible only in two feminist-flavored moments...
...with his lumpish style as his policy positions. Rather than narrowing the cultural gap between the Oval Office and the war rooms, Aspin seemed to symbolize it. To the creased uniforms at the Pentagon, Aspin's rumpled suits and looping, ruminative pronouncements made him seem tweedy and hapless. Oddly for a man who first came to the Defense Department in the mid-1960s as one of the chart-toting whiz kids ushered in by Robert McNamara, Aspin was poor at organizational matters. In a place accustomed to firm decisions and stopwatch timing, he drove Pentagon planners crazy with meetings...
...Beethoven ($57 million) tickled audiences with humor that stretched all the way -- about a foot and a half -- from sitcoms to Saturday Night Live. The SNL-bred Wayne's World was agreeably hip, loose and clever, as befits smart guys acting goofy. But the other two films were hapless rehashes of working-girl and family themes done to death by the networks...