"Life of Brian" (1979) is about a hapless fellow constantly mistaken for the Messiah.

The harulth, through simple- or single-mindedness, pursued one hapless fellow.

Granted, the people around this hapless fellow (who is not, as he irritably explains, the more famous philosopher named George E. Moore) are a lively lot.

One hapless fellow, when criticized, makes the mistake of trying to explain.

If he wasn't as bad as the hapless fellow in one of his favorite Nick Lowe songs, he had been getting there.

Pitner is presented here as a man with profound delusions, but also as a hapless fellow, not entirely unsympathetic.

The hapless fellow who had admitted to being a writer stood in golden chains.

My friend's uncle hired two bravos to accostthe hapless fellow on his way to his rooms that evening.

"Aaah," Luke said, remembering the two hapless fellows who'd passed him without speaking.

He was like a hapless fellow in a cartoon, a personal rain cloud hovering above him wherever he went.