"hopelessly common" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is very common or ordinary in a hopeless or unchangeable way. Example: "Her fashion sense was hopelessly common, always opting for the most basic and overused trends."
"I'm afraid I don't know the answer to that," he would sometimes say to some hopelessly detailed Commons question.
Anyone of the opinion that his light, jet-age design did not contradict but instead complemented the magnificent interior of Penn Station — well, such a person would be considered hopelessly romantic, against all common sense, just like the Penn Station protesters of August 1962.
But only a person who is willfully blind or hopelessly ignorant would not acknowledge the common thread that runs through them: the fear of a future in which income, wealth and cultural inequalities dissipate and traditional power structures dissolve.
Philby's position seemed hopelessly compromised, but Harold Macmillan told the Commons that he had "no reason to conclude that Mr Philby has betrayed the interests of his country, or to identify him with the so-called 'third man'".
Published studies of common child psychiatric problems have been hopelessly underpowered.
So far, published studies of common child psychiatric problems have been hopelessly underpowered.
As we hurtle towards the London Olympics, and the bodies that govern assorted British minority sports stage their meet-and-greet media days, the amusing sight of sports journalists hopelessly blundering around outside their comfort zones is becoming increasingly common.
Americans find common ground in the notion that they're hopelessly split, but most have higher hopes for Donald Trump and Democrats in Congress.
This is probably because some theologians hold the attempt to derive the doctrine from the Bible to be hopelessly naive, while other theologians, many Christian philosophers and apologists accept the common arguments (see section 2.2 above) as decisive.
At a time when politics seemed hopelessly mired in partisan conflict, he made a case about how Americans have more in common with one another than the cynical pollsters would have it.
