A clueless invasion had been followed by a still more hapless occupation.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/columnists/article-12897029/PETER-HITCHENS-wise-men-lifted-gloom-Christmas-bandit-ridden-Baghdad.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

An error-strewn, hapless 4-1 defeat at home to Tottenham Hotspur on the final day confirmed what was already all-but inevitable.

Source: https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/sport/football/leeds-united/absent-owners-but-no-hiding-place-from-leeds-united-failure-graham-smyths-relegation-verdict-4161228

Australia, and specifically the 215 hapless big emitters, will have to do the impossible, and the Prime Minister needs to start telling them and us that yesterday.

Source: https://thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2023/03/06/climate-carbon-target-kohler/

Cork were very lax on the reins at this stage, but Clare let them off the hook and with six minutes remaining Patrick Horgan cut in from the left and unleashed a piledriver that gave the hapless keeper no chance.

Source: https://www.independent.ie/regionals/cork/sport/gaa/cork-showed-real-grit-in-ennis-despite-clare-snatching-a-last-minute-winner/a1486489023.html

Do you know how many hapless children get licks for being restless, “harden” and inattentive?

Source: http://wired868.com/2023/09/02/vaneisa-the-unseen-and-the-unspoken-and-the-need-to-fix-us/

For Broncos fans, Briscoe was a welcome departure from the Broncos' hapless run of searching for a quarterback who could capably lead their offense.

Source: https://www.denverbroncos.com/news/the-making-of-the-magician-marlin-briscoe-s-pioneering-path-in-pro-football

Government should leave them there but tax them so that from their huge wealth which they probably stole from Nigerians, they would return a little to give succour to the hapless poor.

Source: https://www.blueprint.ng/tinubus-students-loan-scheme-and-hidden-truths/

He certainly wouldn’t have appreciated the joyful Darvel supporters singing “You’re getting sacked in the morning” to Aberdeen’s hapless manager, Jim Goodwin.

Source: https://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/23284196.fox-hunting-castlemilk-scottish-tories-goldie-years/?ref=rss

He revealed that in his branch, the hapless staff were not only filling up customers’ forms but also forging customers’ signatures on them.

Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2023/10/12/indias-bank-of-baroda-expose-worsens-agents-steal-money-from-accounts?traffic_source=rss

“How much more damning evidence does the First Minister need to accept that the hapless health secretary is out his depth in this role and should be sacked immediately?

Source: https://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/23240023.waiting-times-scotland-thousands-wait-half-day-e/?ref=rss

If United’s Europa League run ends this week, it will be in part because of the Englishman’s injury-time own goal against Sevilla: Maguire looked both blameless and hapless, and such things can happen to him.

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/harry-maguire-manchester-united-nottingham-forest-b2320976.html

In six games without him, the team went 2-4 with its wins coming against a hapless LSU team and a Georgia team that was beaten by LSU in the conference tournament.

Source: https://fansided.com/2023/03/15/ucf-vs-florida-prediction-odds-nit-first-round/

In the relevant scene, Robb wishes to trap the hapless scientist for his opposition to creating a weapon of even greater murderous power than the fission devices used against Japan.

Source: https://dissidentvoice.org/2023/08/the-oppenheimer-imperative-normalising-atomic-terror/

It also conveys a racist narrative that Black Americans are a hopeless, hapless, and oppressed race who need pity and handouts to succeed,” Owens said.

Source: https://www.deseret.com/2023/3/27/23648919/san-francisco-reparations-5-million-amos-brown-bryon-donalds-burgess-owens

It was to make quick cash for the owners and then walk away as the saviors of the down and outers, the hapless addicted, and the mentally ill.

Source: https://theava.com/archives/228975

"Nigerians should no longer be in doubt about those working in cahoots with fifth columnists in the system to inflict avoidable pains on our hapless people for a political end.

Source: https://www.legit.ng/politics/1513666-fuel-naira-scarcity-comment-columnists-working-apc-undermine-buharis-govt-tinubu-insists/

No one disputes the Trojans’ turnaround from hapless 4-8 outfit to 11-3 title contender.

Source: https://www.latimes.com/sports/usc/story/2023-01-03/usc-trojans-football-defense-lincoln-riley-alex-grinch

The 19-13 victory over a hapless team was one of the ugliest football games I have ever seen.

Source: https://www.dailynorseman.com/2023/10/16/23918651/any-chance-at-the-postseason-for-the-vikings

The Biden administration fumbled the ball at the border, and Republicans wasted no time piling on the hapless DHS secretary.

Source: https://pjmedia.com/columns/stephen-kruiser/2023/07/28/the-morning-briefing-alejandro-mayorkas-would-have-been-fired-from-any-other-job-by-now-n1714165

The episode is a nice change from the norm and demonstrates that Hal isn’t so hapless, while Malcolm gets to best Reese at a sport.

Source: https://screenrant.com/malcolm-middle-best-episodes-according-imdb/