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Meanings of hapless in English

Deserving or inciting pity.

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      1
      The defence was hapless at times as were a number of players.
      Radio NZ
      2
      Back in the day, they used to be extremely hapless and inept.
      The Guardian
      3
      The hapless laborer was now engulfed to his neck in the quicksand.
      The Young Engineers in Arizona; or, Laying Tracks on the Man-kil...
      4
      But woe to the hapless team that stalled in the treacherous quicksands.
      Reminiscences of a Pioneer
      5
      They were the last representatives of the hapless house of the Flavii.
      The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction
      6
      We are simply back to our hapless conspirator to receive stolen goods.
      The Guardian
      7
      Their habitation is the Fire, and hapless the abode of the wrong-doers.
      Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side
      8
      These hapless wights are confined in a big casemate of the fort.
      The Memoirs of Victor Hugo
      9
      Yet United had been hapless before the interval and Pogba a passenger.
      The Irish Times
      10
      What a hapless run that is: six shots dropped in seven holes.
      The Guardian
      11
      A Chippendale, perhaps, with rhyming birthday wishes for some hapless unfortunate inside.
      The Irish Times
      12
      At the same time, they drop home games against the hapless Dees.
      The Guardian
      13
      Mr Griffin opines that Some hapless American tourist in a hired car.
      The Irish Times
      14
      After all, hapless Empoli had not won a match for four months.
      The Irish Times
      15
      It's as though the hapless Cameron Bancroft had assassinated the Prime Minister.
      News.com.au
      16
      He seemed interested in my hapless plight: perhaps he would assist me.
      Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
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