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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 .

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[ adverb ] in a dispirited manner without hope

Synonyms

dispiritedly

Examples

"the first Mozartian opera to be subjected to this curious treatment ran dispiritedly for five performances"

Related terms

hopeless blue hopeless blue

3
[ adverb ] without hope; desperate because there seems no possibility of comfort or success

Examples

"he hung his head hopelessly" "`I must die,' he said hopelessly"

Related terms

hopefully hopeless hopeless

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