hopelessly

adverb hope·less·ly \ ˈhō-pləs-lē \

Definition of hopelessly

:in a hopeless manner —used especially as an intensifier

the formerly despised and hopelessly middle-class game of golf
—Ejner Jensen

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That jury deliberated more than 50 hours over five days but remained hopelessly deadlocked.

— maria puente, USA TODAY, "Bill Cosby's new lawyers get his sex-assault retrial postponed to 2018," 22 Aug. 2017
It's surrounded by thick black bezels and flanked by a Nokia logo and old-school capacitive back and menu buttons, which look hopelessly dated in a market of micro-bezels and on-screen buttons.

— mark walton, Ars Technica, "Nokia 8: An all-aluminum flagship with same-day Android security updates," 16 Aug. 2017
This hopelessly sentimental reveal isn’t an empty one, though; these characters don’t just fall in love because that’s what happens at the end of movies.

— david sims, The Atlantic, "How The Fifth Element Subverted Sci-Fi Movies," 19 July 2017
After five days of deliberations, the jury is hopelessly deadlocked and a second mistrial is declared.

— cameron knight, Cincinnati.com, "Timeline: Major events in the case of Ray Tensing," 18 July 2017
But my dad was deeply, hopelessly in love with the cruise lifestyle.

— priya krishna, Bon Appetit, "How to Stay Healthy On a Cruise," 10 July 2017
Back then, urban communities were the target, the drug of choice couldn’t be had at a clinic and there was little sympathy from the media or lawmakers for those who became hopelessly addicted.

— lorraine ali, latimes.com, "FX's 'Snowfall,' with newcomer Damson Idris at its center, illuminates the early days of the crack cocaine epidemic in L.A.," 5 July 2017
The average time for a case to wend its way through South Florida’s hopelessly backlogged federal immigration courts is 551 days — closer to two years.

— glenn garvin, miamiherald, "Immigration courts, lacking judges, are sinking under a massive backlog of cases," 30 June 2017
Elbon's point was that Musk was becoming so hopelessly behind in his launch manifest that Boeing could not see how SpaceX could easily add commercial crew flights to its launch schedule.

— eric berger, Ars Technica, "After nine launches in 2017, it’s tough to be an honest critic of SpaceX," 26 June 2017

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