Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a despondent manner.
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- adverb In a
despondent manner.
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- adverb with desperation
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Examples
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Tripoli residents huddled despondently indoors, watching the broadcast, checking on friends and wondering how many more times they would have to brave the streets before the regime falls, according to accounts from individuals reached by phone or through the Internet.
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“It was a problem with marketing, not design,” the asura said despondently.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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Where once the label was a badge of pride 67% claimed it in 1988 now those self-defining as working class say despondently that it only means "poor" and "low-paid" these days.
Money busts the convenient myth that social class is dead | Polly Toynbee 2011
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Tripoli residents huddled despondently indoors, watching the broadcast, checking on friends and wondering how many more times they would have to brave the streets before the regime falls, according to accounts from individuals reached by phone or through the Internet.
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Tripoli residents huddled despondently indoors, watching the broadcast, checking on friends and wondering how many more times they would have to brave the streets before the regime falls, according to accounts from individuals reached by phone or through the Internet.
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Staring despondently at the pile of contracts and invoices on my desk; logging on to typepad.
Navelgazing 2009
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The correspondent sank down despondently, with a collapsing of the chest and a drooping forward of the shoulders.
CHAPTER 27 2010
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Its obituary came almost a century ago from Conrad, and was echoed despondently by the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, by Evelyn Waugh and Kingsley Amis.
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Bub saw it clearly when put in that light, and shook his head despondently.
The Lost Poacher 2010
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Tripoli residents huddled despondently indoors, watching the broadcast, checking on friends and wondering how many more times they would have to brave the streets before the regime falls, according to accounts from individuals reached by phone or through the Internet.
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