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What does hapless mean?

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Adjective
  1. Very unlucky; ill-fated.
  2. Devoid of talent or skill.
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But England will take what they can from a 12-try romp against the hapless Canadians.
Yet it is difficult not to continue reading, and impossible not to shudder, at the indignities inflicted on the hapless Yanomami.
The so-called street vendors we see are not as economically hapless as we are meant to believe.
I pitied the hapless patient and commiserated with the unhappy house officer, unsettled by the echoes of my own mistakes.
I read all the time about some hapless evil hot boy getting his and I would've paid good money to see that, you bet.
That is also when the omnipresent stray dogs are more interested in their siesta than in chasing hapless wayfarers.

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