Adverb
in a helpless manner
Source: WordNetIt is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never no helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object of its love. Sigmund Freud
Personality maintains its discreetness by an act of will. Otherwise one person will flow helplessly into another. Camille Paglia
You don't have conversations with microprocessors. You tell them what to do, then helplessly watch the disaster when they take you literally! David Brin
It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open. Herman Melville
A hedgehog? And just how does a hedgehog make love?" he demanded. No, I thought. I won't. I will not. But I did. "Very carefully," I replied, giggling helplessly. So now we know just how old that one is, I thought. Diana Gabaldon
The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas. Leonard Peikoff