Antonym: helpful. Similar words: nonetheless, hapless, nevertheless, help, help out, cannot help, helping, helpful. Meaning: ['helplɪs] adj. 1. lacking in or deprived of strength or power 2. unable to function; without help 3. unable to manage independently.
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91. That is, he or she is viewed as a passive and helpless victim of ruling class, media and state propaganda.
92. She watched - helpless again - as Mrs Taxos loaded luggage in two panniers on one of the donkeys.
93. To hold otherwise would leave municipalities the helpless victims of all those who choose to publish untrue imputations which injure their reputations.
94. I felt helpless and despairing and suddenly so ill that I had to clutch at the door to stop myself falling.
95. She looked back on the transformation in herself with a kind of helpless resignation.
96. The boats surrounded the whales, drove them into nets, where they became enmeshed and were rendered helpless by harpoon thrusts.
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97. In the Mortuary Like soft cheeses they bulge sideways on the marble slabs, helpless, waiting to be washed.
98. The camp was thrown into turmoil, with warriors sprinting to natural rifle-pits, and the helpless ones taking flight north.
99. As the warriors turned to fight, Joseph hurried the helpless ones towards the gorge into which Canyon Creek ran.
100. We felt so helpless, so powerless to right what to us was a terrible wrong.
101. His mother's death left the boy feeling utterly helpless and alone.
102. Why are you so afraid of a helpless old woman?
103. When awake, he lay motionless, coiled like a fetus and almost as helpless.
104. Wonien did not frighten her; she knew what helpless madness they all felt.
105. The driver yelled curses at her, slashing in fright at the helpless donkey.
106. I remember the helpless, almost childlike way he submitted himself to my ministrations.
107. That was when Kleiber had given up the struggle and collapsed, limp and helpless as a rag doll.
108. But they are not eager to pitch into two helpless dummies strapped to chairs.
109. She felt breathless, light-headed and as perfectly helpless as a butterfly whose wings had been pinned behind its back.
110. No longer are they helpless pawns, harried and wounded by the disease, driven helplessly out of life.
111. The biological factor is the length of time that the human child is dependent and helpless and in need of attention from parents.
112. In 1945 Japan was helpless, with its military power annihilated.
113. Both seemed helpless, and Mrs Garfitt was working up to hysterics.
114. We were afraid that this proud and energetic man might be forced to lie there paralyzed and helpless until his death.
115. For a while my wife and I were helpless with laughter, but trying to clean up afterwards taught us a lesson!
116. Frightened and helpless, Alvin wondered if they might kill him.
117. This short gestation means that, like the kittens of a domestic cat, the cubs are born blind and helpless.
118. The polio patient's equal right to self-determination should not be denied merely because he is helpless.
119. Instead of going closer to the nest and finding the genuinely helpless nestlings, the killer followed the apparently helpless adult bird.
120. Then, as the helpless youngster screamed in agony, it bit chunks from his arm, breaking it in two places.
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