badly off, donsie, fatal, ill off, in adverse circumstances, luckless, out of luck, short of luck, underprivileged, unlucky, untoward
Definitionadj. deserving or inciting pity
Last update: October 2, 2015
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The man 's stance suggests that he is engaged in a slapstick comedy routine, kicking the backside of the hapless fellow in front. [adjective]
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The hapless EU minister Denis MacShane will demand the European Army intervene, to universal derision. [adjective]
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The crowd without gave way, and several warriors entered the place, bringing with them the hapless conjurer, who had been left so long by the scout in duress. [adjective]
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Her heart beat high for the foe rather than for her hapless friends--these were but bruised reeds--those were the incarnation of victorious strength. [adjective]
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Wretch, hapless wretch that I am. [adjective]
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What catastrophes might not be called down on his hapless head if so influential a woman as Marcus' mother Mary should come to know of her son's backsliding. [adjective]
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To me, the hapless woman now awaiting my sentence from his nephew's lips, the gods granted, as the most precious of all gifts, the love of your divine uncle. [adjective]
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"The latter retired as soon as he had presented the new-comer to the hapless woman." [adjective]
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He readily obeyed the architect's sign and, sobbing bitterly, told him that the hapless general, after his army had betrayed him, fled hither. [adjective]
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The others--" "The first considerations are enough; but may I be permitted to know what my wise friend has awarded to the hapless wight from whom she withdrew her favour. [adjective]
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The hapless city which dark Hades ingulfed really belonged to Antony, for in the days of its prosperity he was its founder. [adjective]
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