Sidle into a room apologetically, look a hopeless failure and people may assume that you are.

I have tried to my uttermost and I am a hopeless failure.

After calling Jamie, "hopeless failure" Mary warns that his bad influence will drag his brother down as well.

The Territorial government established there had been a hopeless failure, and Brigham Young was the only real power in the land.

I sat on the edge of the bed to consider my hopeless failure, while behind me Connie propped herself up on her elbows.

Lost the one tiling that had made him a success where Kyaren had been a hopeless failure!

Thus the 512 expedition against Thrace, a very successful campaign was represented as primarily aimed at the Scythians and a hopeless failure.

I think we can say without any conceit that without the European Union that summit might well have ended in hopeless failure.

It is hard to escape the conclusion that fisheries policy to date has indeed been a hopeless failure.

Many sheets of cardboard and pairs of scissors I spoiled, only to turn from my hopeless failures in tears.