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haplessly

haplessly adverb: in a hapless manner.

Adverb

haplessly (comparative more haplessly, superlative most haplessly)

  1. In a hapless manner.
    • The only real knock against “Mortshall” is that “Rick and Morty get sick of each other and split up for a while” feels kind of old hat at this point—the comic premise of the show requires their relationship to be toxic (because a lot of the humor comes from seeing Rick be a shit and seeing Morty...2021 September 6, Zack Handlen, “Rick And Morty ends its fifth season looking for an escape hatch”, in AV Club

Forms of haplessly

comparativemore haplessly
superlativemost haplessly

Origin of haplessly

From hapless + -ly.

Questions about haplessly

What does haplessly mean?
Haplessly means in a hapless manner.
What part of speech is haplessly?
Haplessly is an adverb.

Words near haplessly in the dictionary

  1. haplaquept
  2. haplaquoll
  3. haplargid
  4. haplargids
  5. hapless
  6. haplessly
  7. haplessness
  8. haplic
  9. haplo-
  10. haplo-insufficiency
  11. haploabnormal

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