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English Dictionary: hapless by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hapless
adj
  1. 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 life"
    Synonym(s): hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched
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.
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