luckless

Co-written by Gilliam and Michael Palin, with appearances by Palin as a luckless dweeb through the ages and John Cleese as a posh Robin Hood, “Time Bandits,” the film, was very much a Python work.

After the luckless Wood repeatedly passed the edge, it was Woakes who got the crucial wicket of Hodge in an excellent spell late in the day.

Gathering routine genre elements — the masked predator, the luckless teenage victims, the cabin-in-the-woods setting — Nash subordinates them all to a mood of stunning serenity.

Maybe they had no greater place to be, except at a greater distance from a luckless caravan like ours, led by a man marked for the coming of Cid.

Considering how abysmal her pay is, she figures she’s being taken advantage of as much as these luckless applicants.