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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hapless \Hap"less\, a.
Without hap or luck; luckless; unfortunate; unlucky; unhappy;
as hapless youth; hapless maid. --Dryden.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
hapless
adj : 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"; "couldn't rescue the poor fellow"; "his poor
distorted limbs"; "a wretched life" [syn: {miserable},
{misfortunate}, {pathetic}, {piteous}, {pitiable}, {pitiful},
{poor}, {wretched}]
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