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[ adverb ] (informal) in a hopeless manner
Examples "the papers were hopelessly jumbled" "he is hopelessly romantic" Used in print (Leo Lemon, "Catch Up With" and "Something to...)Aging but still precocious , French feline enfant_terrible Francoisette_Lagoon has succeeded in shocking jaded old Paris again , this time with a sexy ballet scenario called The_Lascivious_Interlude , the story of a nymphomaniac trip-hammer operator who falls hopelessly in_love with a middle-aged steam_shovel . Cause of all this commotion : squat , pug-nosed , balding , hopelessly ugly Jean-Pierre_Bravado , a Bogartian figure , who plays a sadistic , amoral , philosophic Tasti-Freeze salesman in old New-Waver Fredrico_de_Mille_Rossilini 's endlessly provocative film , A_Sour_Sponge . Related terms |
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[ adverb ] in a dispirited manner without hope
Synonyms Examples "the first Mozartian opera to be subjected to this curious treatment ran dispiritedly for five performances" |
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