Renka knew her even before she became the Black Swan and while he cared deeply for her, she regarded him as a hapless younger brother.

An ordinary reader might well perceive Jacob as a scoundrel and liar, with Esau as his hapless brother.

One of Luther's hapless brothers tries to woo her in the dairy; after rejecting him, she wearily submits to an older family friend, Israel Mitchell, who seems a decent sort, even a bit poetic.

By the end of "The Godfather, Part II," Michael's murderousness finally seems to be going too far (extending even to Fredo, his unreliable but hapless brother), and it's presented as an increasing burden.

He took a good catch, and looks to be a considerably better bet behind the stumps than his hapless elder brother Kamran.

Popular lore suggested he died of heartbreak over the fate of his hapless brother (Ferdinand would remain in captivity in Fez until his own death in 1443).

And there's the impotent Arab League which has not re-gained one square millimetre of land for their hapless Palestinian brothers and sisters.

For Mr. Rowland, that means treating Tom Scott, a conservative candidate running on the Independence Party line, as a sort of little brother - well-meaning, but hapless and bound to fail.

Theo had tried for years to sell them, not least in the hope of recouping a fraction of the money he had shelled out to support his hapless brother over the course of more than a decade.

Alan is a chiropractor, the hapless father of Jake Harper, roommate and best friend of Walden Schmidt and the surviving younger brother of Charlie Harper.