What is the meaning of hapless?

Deserving or inciting pity.
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched

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