unfortunate.
Very unlucky; ill-fated.
Thus spoke my prophetic soul, as, torn by remorse, horror, and despair, I beheld those I loved spend vain sorrow upon the graves of William and Justine, the first hapless victims to my unhallowed arts.
miserable, wretched, unhappy, measly, forlorn.
From about 1400, from hap (“luck”) + -less.
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