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hapless
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adjective
without luck; luckless; unfortunate
1902William Dean HowellsLiterature and Life: Spanish Prisoners of WarThis would have been consequent, logical, and in a sort reasonable; but to butcher and capture a lot of wretched Spanish peasants and fishermen, hapless conscripts to whom personally and nationally we were as so many men in the moon, was that melancholy and humiliating necessity of war which makes it homicide in which there is not even the saving grace of hate, or the excuse of hot blood.1991Jerry DavisThe Penalties of PiratingAs the hapless driver was struggling to open his crumpled door, a blue IBM business limo came sliding to a stop beside it.1993William GibsonDisneyland With The Death Penalty (Wired Magazine, Issue 1.04, Sep/Oct 1993)One reads of clubs there having their licenses pulled for stocking private cubicles with hapless Filipinas…

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