hopelessly

adverb hope·less·ly \ ˈhō-pləs-lē \

|Updated on: 13 Jun 2018

Definition of hopelessly

: in a hopeless manner —used especially as an intensifier

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

Recent Examples of hopelessly from the Web

What concerned legal experts even more was the administration’s refusal to defend the law against what’s widely viewed as a hopelessly frivolous legal claim.

— michael hiltzik, latimes.com, "Trump's DOJ labels the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional, placing healthcare for 133 million at risk," 8 June 2018
Their third collaboration reunites them with Young Adult star Charlize Theron, here playing a hopelessly tapped-out mom of three whose night nanny (a whimsically appealing Mackenzie Davis) takes care of more than just the baby.

— eliza berman, Time, "Best Movies of 2018 So Far," 4 June 2018
Many restaurant cookbooks assume that readers have an army of prep cooks to help them produce the hopelessly complicated recipes in their pages.

— adina steiman, WSJ, "A Cookbook Packed With Red-Blooded Vegetarian Fare," 31 May 2018
Getting hopelessly turned around, dealing with flight delays, losing your luggage, and similar stress-inducing scenarios aren’t exactly rare events.

— carolyn l. todd, SELF, "7 Tips for Managing Your Anxiety About Traveling," 17 May 2018
Polls now have the opposition snapping at the heels of the flailing Tories, who are hopelessly bogged down in Brexit negotiations.

— The Economist, "Corbynomics would change Britain—but not in the way most people think," 17 May 2018
But not so much Melissa McCarthy’s hopelessly derivative entry into the canon.

— brian truitt, USA TODAY, "Review: Melissa McCarthy's C-grade college comedy 'Life of the Party' is a Greek tragedy," 10 May 2018
Trump seizes on those mistakes as incontrovertible evidence that the media is hopelessly fake.

— chris cillizza, CNN, "Donald Trump just accidentally revealed something very important about how he views the media," 9 May 2018
The judge instructed them to keep deliberating, and to consider each other’s views, on Thursday morning, but shortly after noon jurors sent another note saying they were hopelessly deadlocked.

— david owens, courant.com, "Hartford Jury Deadlocks In Murder Case," 24 May 2018

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