Vocabulary
Hapless
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
(especially of a person) unfortunate.
Urdu meaning
پیشرو سابقہ پچھلے
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- But his last message should be enough to prick the conscience of those who have remained quiet, silently accepting the mass killing of Gaza`s hapless people.
- But if this was so, why would the hapless women be in Islamabad in this heat, sitting quietly on concrete, waiting for just a little attention from our elected politicos?
- Thus, it is clear that the emerging politico-legal order is going to make the rapacious elites all the more extractive and repressive, and yet, immune to accountability, with the hapless people being the easy prey.
- Among Israel`s most abhorrent acts is its soldiers shooting and killing hapless, starving Palestinians standing in line for food at controversial military-run aid distribution sites.
- Hapless Indians were deported in handcuffs and fetters.
Synonyms
unfortunate, luckless, unlucky, out of luck, ill-fated, ill-starred, jinxed, doomed; cursed,
Curator example
“the hapless victims of the disaster”
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