Both Uses of
despondent
in
In Cold Blood
- …during which he held the post-1935 to 1939-encompassed the dustiest, the down-and-outest the region had known since white men settled there, and young Herb Clutter, having, as he did, a brain expertly racing with the newest in streamlined agricultural practices, was quite qualified to serve as middleman between the government and the despondent farm ranchers; these men could well use the optimism and the educated instruction of a likable young fellow who seemed to know his business.†
Chpt 1
- The second year of the marriage, Eveanna was born, and three years later, Beverly; after each confinement the young mother had experienced an inexplicable despondency-seizures of grief that sent her wandering from room to room in a hands wringing daze.
Chpt 1 *despondency = depression
Definition:
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(despondent) emotionally depressed -- especially a feeling of grief and hopelessness after a loss