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Significats de hapless en anglès
Deserving or inciting pity.
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Examples for "poor"
Examples for "poor"
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Mrs. Bishop was in poor health; the general in poor financial circumstances.
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Low cost, high impact interventions exist, however poor access remains a challenge.
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Which the poor Century did; many thanks to it, in the circumstances.
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Inevitably, it provokes envy in the poor and depravity in the rich.
5
Pity the poor earthling caught in the toils of the moral law.
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It is hard in the stationary, and miserable in the declining state.
2
You behold in me the most miserable monarch in all the world.
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He was miserable; he had no confidence in himself, in his future.
4
The idea-themiserable fancy rather-hasterribly corrupted the preaching of the gospel.
5
They lived in dirty houses situated in miserable parts of the slums.
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He said the action was an opportunity to clarify a wretched situation.
2
The household affairs are in a wretched condition; everything is in disorder.
3
Parliament voted to hold the wretched 2016 referendum by an overwhelming majority.
4
Veronica is amazed: isn't Zimbabwe supposed to be a wretched, dangerous place?
5
The colonel sat in wretched silence a few moments; then he arose:
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There was something noble in his words and pathetic in the action.
2
The pathetic career of the Gracchi had much significance in Roman history.
3
It seemed that it was not ludicrous; it was only terribly pathetic.
4
There is something pathetic in this desertion of the ancient, central hearthstone.
5
Betty conjured her up, a charming and pathetic vision; but in vain.
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For most, the pay is pitiful and the working conditions extremely dangerous.
2
Did you really think this was all about your pitiful secret society?
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I'm not allowed to work, so we survive on his pitiful salary.
4
The crystal flakes falling in the foul streets was a pitiful sight.
5
In one of her letters she bursts out with the pitiful exclamation:
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A second scream came, piteous, all hope gone, choking sobs followed it.
2
They were assembled in the city and marshalled forth in piteous procession.
3
Suddenly Norma gave a piteous whine; the reptile had bitten her tongue.
4
He had something in his effects in this line that was piteous.
5
The same yearning, the same piteous agitation was in her attitude now.
1
They found the poor king in the hut, in a pitiable condition.
2
The poor fellow was in a pitiable state; he was crying bitterly.
3
She was a pitiable object in the strong light of the electrolier.
4
Moreover, the lot of these gain-loving traders was pitiable in the extreme.
5
This pitiable state of mind is the natural result of her education.
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And dat is who kilt poor misfortunate Miss Ailsie, poor gal!
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I'm not so damned holy that I can look down on a misfortunate girl.
3
The misfortunate oaf was a sickly, grayish hue.
4
What misfortunate chance has brought you to Coombe?
5
There never was sich a misfortunate nose on anybody's face-a-squokingout dat way in onseasonable hours!
Ús de hapless en anglès
1
The defence was hapless at times as were a number of players.
2
Back in the day, they used to be extremely hapless and inept.
3
The hapless laborer was now engulfed to his neck in the quicksand.
4
But woe to the hapless team that stalled in the treacherous quicksands.
5
They were the last representatives of the hapless house of the Flavii.
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We are simply back to our hapless conspirator to receive stolen goods.
7
Their habitation is the Fire, and hapless the abode of the wrong-doers.
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These hapless wights are confined in a big casemate of the fort.
9
Yet United had been hapless before the interval and Pogba a passenger.
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What a hapless run that is: six shots dropped in seven holes.
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A Chippendale, perhaps, with rhyming birthday wishes for some hapless unfortunate inside.
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At the same time, they drop home games against the hapless Dees.
13
Mr Griffin opines that Some hapless American tourist in a hired car.
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After all, hapless Empoli had not won a match for four months.
15
It's as though the hapless Cameron Bancroft had assassinated the Prime Minister.
16
He seemed interested in my hapless plight: perhaps he would assist me.
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