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despondent
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  • Maybe Haymitch's noticed my despondency and is trying to cheer me up a bit.  (source)
    despondency = depression
  • She often heard him and Mama discussing his lack of work or talking despondently about Hans going to see their son, only to discover that the young man had left his lodging and was most likely already on his way to war.  (source)
    despondently = in a depressed manner
  • While Officer Delinko had been dozing, somebody had sprayed all the windows of his squad car with black paint. ... He touched his finger to the windshield—the paint was dry. "My car," he said despondently.  (source)
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  • He cast a despondent, contrite glance toward Mariam, then his mother.  (source)
    despondent = depressed
  • He ate, worked, loved, dreamed and played in this garment of heaviness, weighed down as if he were wearing a leaden bathrobe—trudging daily through the murky despondency that sucked the color out of everything.  (source)
    despondency = depression
  • 'It's the end,' Milo agreed despondently.  (source)
    despondently = in a depressed manner
  • It all depends on whether your man is of the desponding type who can be tempted to despair, or of the wishful-thinking type who can be assured that all is well.  (source)
    desponding = inclined to get depressed
  • I knew right then I was in the sloop of despond.  (source)
    despond = depression
  • Drew is standing in front of me, knuckles bleeding, with a look of such sheer despondence that I feel like I should comfort him.†  (source)
  • Fagin sighed, and shook his head despondingly.  (source)
    despondingly = in a depressed manner
  • Thrice Martin hoped and desponded, and now all his pride was gone.†  (source)
    desponded = got depressed
  • But when it became evident that their son was crippled, they became despondent.  (source)
    despondent = depressed
  • 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.  (source)
    despondency = depression
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