Down
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- He starts out as hapless and down-on-his-luck while on Earth and doesn't not improve much when he gets to Mars.
Source: Literature / Gullivar of Mars -
Bots rarely, if ever, waste their hard CC abilities by blowing them all on their primary target, instead managing to keep the hapless target locked down for quite a while.
Source: Video Game / League of Legends - A beam of energy stabbed down, and the hapless vessel was instantly transmuted into an exploding WW2 battleship.
Source: Stock Footage Failure
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Hapless and Down. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/down/hapless
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