adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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William Holden stars as a luckless scriptwriter in "Sunset Boulevard."
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Adding insult to injury, a double cross awaits our luckless hero in the final stanza.
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At about this point, it seemed it was the audience who needed to be rescued, not the luckless motorists.
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But with a new-found strength she swung it as a feather, at the luckless Rubberneck.
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It was no more than Wanderers deserved after a luckless opening.
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Just as this realisation dawned, a luckless couple drew into the parking space to read a map.
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Keen Hunter was second and luckless Elbio third.
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The story presents a picture of the luckless , homeless skinhead which corresponds closely to the movement's own mythology about itself.