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Definition of Haplessly
1. adv. In a hapless, unlucky manner.
Definition of Haplessly
1. Adverb. In a hapless manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Haplessly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Haplessly
Literary usage of Haplessly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1883)
"Now Fitzgerald was so glad to get away from that other topic on which he had
haplessly stumbled that he began and gave this old gentleman a very fair notion ..."
2. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1905)
"In skirmishes with the Indians, the mounted vaquero, if haplessly without arms,
will throw this formidable object round the neck or the body of his enemy, ..."
3. From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America by James Longstreet (1908)
"... the envied crown so haplessly tendered ; of the other in seeking refuge that
might cover catastrophe involved in the complexity of misconceived plans. ..."
4. The Bookman (1910)
"The demand for literary amusement is a sort of insatiable whirlpool, bound to
get any poor devil who may have become haplessly conscious of his ability to ..."
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