meaning of hapless
1. Without hap or luck; luckless; unfortunate; unlucky; unhappy; as, hapless youth; hapless maid.
2. deserving or inciting pity; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched
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