All 4 Uses of
despondent
in
The Prince and The Pauper
- One January day, on his usual begging tour, he tramped despondently up and down the region round about Mincing Lane and Little East Cheap, hour after hour, bare-footed and cold, looking in at cook-shop windows and longing for the dreadful pork-pies and other deadly inventions displayed there—for to him these were dainties fit for the angels; that is, judging by the smell, they were—for it had never been his good luck to own and eat one.†
Chpt 2
- then added, despondently, "but woe is me!"
Chpt 27 *despondently = in a depressed manner
- The ancient ceremonies went on, with impressive solemnity, whilst the audience gazed; and as they drew nearer and nearer to completion, Tom Canty grew pale, and still paler, and a deep and steadily deepening woe and despondency settled down upon his spirits and upon his remorseful heart.†
Chpt 32
- But at last he heaved a sigh, shook his head slowly, and said, with a trembling lip and in a despondent voice— "I call the scene back—all of it—but the Seal hath no place in it."†
Chpt 32
Definition:
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(despondent) emotionally depressed -- especially a feeling of grief and hopelessness after a loss