Deserving or inciting pity.
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The defence was hapless at times as were a number of players.
2
Back in the day, they used to be extremely hapless and inept.
3
The hapless laborer was now engulfed to his neck in the quicksand.
4
But woe to the hapless team that stalled in the treacherous quicksands.
5
They were the last representatives of the hapless house of the Flavii.
6
We are simply back to our hapless conspirator to receive stolen goods.
7
Their habitation is the Fire, and hapless the abode of the wrong-doers.
8
These hapless wights are confined in a big casemate of the fort.
9
Yet United had been hapless before the interval and Pogba a passenger.
10
What a hapless run that is: six shots dropped in seven holes.
11
A Chippendale, perhaps, with rhyming birthday wishes for some hapless unfortunate inside.
12
At the same time, they drop home games against the hapless Dees.
13
Mr Griffin opines that Some hapless American tourist in a hired car.
14
After all, hapless Empoli had not won a match for four months.
15
It's as though the hapless Cameron Bancroft had assassinated the Prime Minister.
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He seemed interested in my hapless plight: perhaps he would assist me.
