Hopeless

A word used to describe something as inadequate or incompetent. It describes the feeling of despair. This feeling may appear when it seems as if there is no chance of success. 
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“The Democratic party nominated the one available Democrat who had the smallest chance of beating him - Horatio Seymour, lately governor of New York, an excellent statesman, but at that time hopeless as a candidate because of his attitude during the war.”
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