Most writers attempting to use it in an attempt to add a kind of spurious authenticity end up looking hopelessly dated.

That made me wonder whether the dress would look hopelessly dated even if I did find it.

The dealers lost interest in her, and for many years her work, when it attracted attention at all, looked hopelessly dated.

Many musicals with memorable scores no longer work because their books are hopelessly dated and carelessly constructed.

Brunch Brunch is one of those habits of the 1970's, along with fern bars and giant pepper mills, that seem hopelessly dated.

Computer labs remain hopelessly dated.

Critics found the play hopelessly dated, and it ran for only 32 performances.

In three general elections Diefenbaker had watched his party being denied power because of its espousal of a philosophy which to him appeared hopelessly dated.

Some of the social commentary (for instance, on matters of race) may seem hopelessly dated, as well.

But since Dr. Evil has also spent the last 30 years in a cryogenic pod, his schemes are hopelessly dated.