hapless

Especially of a person, 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.
• My dear friend, are you to become that hapless kind of outcast, a champion of lost causes?

Very miserable, wretched, unhappy, measly, forlorn.

Devoid of talent or skill.

• Gideon Defoe scripted from his own series-launching comedic book The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists, about the adventures of a hapless group of pirates known only by names like The Pirate With The Scarf, The Pirate With Gout, and