Related Words for hapless

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unfortunate
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Adjective, Adjective
miserable
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Adjective, Adjective
pitiful
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Adjective, Adjective
pitiable
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Adjective, Adjective
pathetic
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Adjective, Adjective
poor
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Adjective, Adjective
piteous
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Adjective, Adjective
wretched
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Adjective, Adjective
luckless
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Adjective
unsuspecting
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Adjective
bumbling
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Adjective
feckless
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Adjective
wayward
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Adjective
beleaguered
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Adjective
unwitting
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Adjective
erstwhile
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Noun
disgruntled
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Adjective
befuddled
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Adjective
inept
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Adjective
fellow
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Noun
intrepid
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Noun
helpless
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Adjective
benighted
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Adjective
plucky
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Adjective
wily
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Adjective
harried
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Adjective
clueless
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Noun
dopey
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Name
teenaged
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Adjective
recalcitrant
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Adjective
crazed
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Adjective
downtrodden
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Noun
drunken
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Adjective
witless
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Adjective
lovesick
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Adjective
miscreant
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Noun
bedraggled
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Adjective
marauding
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Adjective
lowly
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Adjective
bungling
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Noun
gullible
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Adjective
bewildered
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Verb
unscrupulous
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Adjective
disaffected
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Adjective
unlucky
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Adjective
unhappy
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Adjective
graceless
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Adjective
forlorn
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Adjective
hopeless
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Adjective
woeful
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Adjective
disastrous
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Adjective
sorry
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Adjective
futile
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Adjective
bad off
//
Phrase, Adjective
heartless
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Adjective
doomed
/
Verb
incapable
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Adjective
sour
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Adjective
terrible
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Adjective
disconsolate
xxxx
Adjective
unlikely
x/x
Adjective
cursed
/
Verb
joyless
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Adjective
accursed
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Adjective
depressed
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Adjective
dismal
/x
Adjective
badly off
/x/
Phrase, Adjective
forsaken
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Verb
shirtless
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Noun
rueful
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Adjective
thankless
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Adjective
bleak
/
Adjective
baleful
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Adjective
waste
/
Noun
catastrophic
xx/x
Adjective
despairing
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Noun
desperate
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Adjective
tragic
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Adjective
disheartened
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Verb
silly
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Adjective
crestfallen
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Adjective
fatalistic
xx/x
Adjective
desolate
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Adjective
lousy
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Adjective
despondent
x/x
Adjective
unfair
x/
Adjective
underprivileged
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Noun
caledonia
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Name
maximilian
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Name
wight
/
Noun
victims
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Noun
dupes
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Noun
pawns
/
Noun
lexicography
xx/xx
Noun
hoover
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Name
swain
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Noun
nymph
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Noun
pedestrians
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Noun
motorist
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Noun
wanderers
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Noun
sire
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Noun
browns
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Noun
cubs
/
Noun
innocents
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Noun
wretches
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Noun
captives
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Noun
fugitives
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Noun
mariners
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Noun
bystanders
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Noun
prey
/
Noun
orphan
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Noun
heroine
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Noun
mortals
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Noun
tourist
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Noun
eve
/
Noun
edward
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Name
insect
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Noun
plight
/
Noun
maiden
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Noun
sufferer
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Noun
prisoner
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Noun
suitor
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Noun
civilians
x/x
Noun
intruder
x/x
Noun
foreigner
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Noun
trio
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Noun
woe
/
Noun
recruit
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Noun
protagonist
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Noun
defendant
x/x
Noun
abomination
xxx/x
Noun
absurdities
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Noun
afflicted
x/x
Adjective
bereaved
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Adjective
calamitous
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Adjective
clement
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Name, Adjective
darling
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Noun, Adjective
dear
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Adjective, Noun, Verb, Adverb
deceived
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Adverb
defenseless
x/x
Adjective
deluded
x/x
Adjective
distraught
x/
Adjective
divine
x/
Adjective, Name, Verb
haps
/
Verb
heretics
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Verb
humiliated
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Adjective
imps
/
Noun
inconsistent
xx/x
Adjective
infatuated
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Adjective
lawless
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Noun, Adjective
lone
/
Adjective
merry
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Adjective, Name
murdered
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Adjective
rogues
/
Noun
sad
/
Adjective, Verb, Noun
sinners
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Noun
slums
/
Noun
stricken
/x
Adjective
things
/
Noun
unholy
x/x
Adjective
vulgar
/x
Adjective, Noun
wronged
/
Verb
yours
/
Verb
bulletproof
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Adjective, Verb
stonewall
/x
Name, Verb, Adjective
die
/
Verb, Noun
no
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Noun, Adverb, Adjective