no-hoper

noun1

1. •
   Someone or something that has no hope of success.

   • Francis Urquhart: Six days to the first ballot. Who are we up against? Tim Stamper: Mackenzie, Earle, Woolton, Samuels, and three no-hopers: Bairsted, Llewellyn-Jones-Rhys, and Bogg. — 1990