hopeless

I'm hopeless at names.

a hopeless distortion of the truth

I'm hopeless at Maths.

It's hopeless, he said flatly.

a hopeless case. hopeful

a hopeless footballer

"'It's hopeless,' he said flatly."

When I was at school I was always hopeless at athletics.

I’m a hopeless dancer. I’ve got two left feet.

Jess looked at him in mute hopeless appeal.

Jim's plan seemed hopeless, but he brought it off.

He gave way to hopeless grief as soon as he heard the bad message.

He is hopeless about his chances of winning the contest.

The sight of the hopeless little boy aroused her maternal instincts.

dissentient voices were castigated as ‘hopeless bureaucrats’.

I laughed humorlessly to myself, still gasping for air. Reckless in Forks—now there was a hopeless proposition.

It is laziness and waywardness, however, that causes one to give himself up as hopeless and back down on the pretext of "no interest".

A hopeless, jerkwater town where mustard is turned out in carload lots, in vats and tuns and barrels and pots and cute looking little jars.