Related Clues:

• Terse turndown to an invitation
• 'It's ___!' (despairing cry)
• 'Don't even bother'
• Defeatist's words
• "___ get no satisfaction ..."
• Hopeless
• Ineffectual
• 'Not possible'
• Defeatist's sentiment
• 'Out of the question'
• Defeatist's declaration
• ''I give up!''
• Words of refusal
• Pessimist's plaint
• Pessimist's words