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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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The Old Man, as he is known, would not want to be seen as the hapless prisoner of his own empty rhetoric.
In the fall, he dominated as a wide receiver on the football team, grabbing lobs over hapless defenders in the corner of the end zone.
But England will take what they can from a 12-try romp against the hapless Canadians.
The so-called street vendors we see are not as economically hapless as we are meant to believe.
Stillborn epigrams, mechanistic wordplay, and numbing longueurs feel like hapless actors' improvisations.
Yet it is difficult not to continue reading, and impossible not to shudder, at the indignities inflicted on the hapless Yanomami.

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