Crossword-Solution: HAPLESS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Hapless | a. | Without hap or luck; luckless; unfortunate; unlucky; unhappy; as, hapless youth; hapless maid. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
|---|---|---|
| HAPLESS | anagram | PLASHES |
We have 44 clues for the answer “HAPLESS”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Very unlucky | 1 answer |
| Unserendipitous | 1 answer |
| Prone to misfortune | 1 answer |
| in the wars | 2 answers |
| badly off | 3 answers |
| Like a sad sack | 3 answers |
| out of luck | 4 answers |
| Accident-prone | 4 answers |
| Jinxed | 5 answers |
| Job description? | 5 answers |
| Star-crossed | 7 answers |
| unprosperous | 8 answers |
| under a cloud | 9 answers |
| misfortunate | 9 answers |
| AN UNFORTUNATE DEVELOPMENT | 10 answers |
| AN UNPREDICTABLE OUTCOME THAT IS UNFORTUNATE | 10 answers |
| AN UNFORTUNATE SITUATION | 11 answers |
| In trouble | 13 answers |
| Ill-fated | 13 answers |
| infelicitous | 19 answers |
| pitiable | 23 answers |
| Calamitous | 46 answers |
| Malign | 66 answers |
| haunted | 66 answers |
| Inept | 66 answers |
| woeful | 67 answers |
| Hairy | 67 answers |
| Baleful | 69 answers |
| Frightening | 70 answers |
| Unlucky | 71 answers |
| Spooky | 71 answers |
| symbolic | 73 answers |
| unfavourable | 75 answers |
| detrimental | 76 answers |
| Antagonistic | 77 answers |
| COUNTER ___ | 77 answers |
| Hopeless | 80 answers |
| troublesome | 82 answers |
| Serious | 82 answers |
| Unfortunate | 83 answers |
| Terrible | 84 answers |
| Signifi-cant | 85 answers |
| Poor | 92 answers |
| DIM ___ | 94 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RATEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with HAPLESS (5)
Others more milde, Retreated in a silent valley, sing With notes Angelical to many a Harp Thir own Heroic deeds and hapless fall By doom of Battel; and complain that Fate Free Vertue should enthrall to Force or Chance.
Hapless wretch! how can I brook On thy misery to look? Though to gaze on thee I yearn, Much to question, much to learn, Horror-struck away I turn.
For example, some smart terminals have commands that allow one to download strings to program keys; this can be used to write live data that, when listed to the terminal, infects it with a security-breaking {virus} that is triggered the next time a hapless user strikes that key.
Momentarily baffled here, the huge elephant wheeled and bore down upon the hapless priests who had now scattered, terror-stricken, in every direction.
Still perhaps she--” He paused and added, with a laugh: “Royal attentions are hard to resist--you know that, don’t you, Rudolf?” “Confound you!” said I; and rising, I left the hapless Bertram in George’s hands and went home to bed.
Quotes with HAPLESS (3)
While it was well within their powers to toy around with mortals like hapless puppets, deeper human workings remained elusive to them. The heart, the soul, the very foundation of man’s nature — those were mysteries to the gods, for all their manipulations.
Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again.
I wander through each chartered street, Near where the chartered Thames does flow; A mark in every face I meet, Marks of weakness, marks of woe. In every cry of every man, In every infant’s cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forged manacles I hear: How the chimney-sweeper’s cry Every blackening church appals, And the hapless soldier’s sigh Runs in blood down palace-walls. But most, through midnight streets I hear How the youthful harlot’s curse Blasts the new…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 31 times in crossword archives (1976–2022).