Luckless
Poor
Poor adjective - Lacking money or material possessions.
Luckless is a synonym for poor in unfortunate topic. You can use "Luckless" instead an adjective "Poor", if it concerns topics such as unlucky.
Mutual synonyms
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While the others are really just a bunch of poor luckless idiots brainwashed by Kemp's dogma who really only want to help, Kemp is this trope in its most psychotic form.
Source: Series / Being Human (UK) -
So Itchy goes to college, passes his exams, gets his degree, finds a job as an engineer at a railway, and proudly rides the train right over Scratchy (who, being the poor luckless bastard that he is, had almost managed to free himself in the meantime before fate caught up with him).
Source: Chained to a Railway
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