hapless

hapless (http://definr.com/hapless)

     adj : deserving or inciting pity; "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"; "couldn't rescue the poor fellow"; "his poor
           distorted limbs"; "a wretched life" [syn: miserable,
           misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful,
            poor, wretched]