Sample Sentences for
despondent
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    He was despondent.  (source)
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    She was despondent, Eve.  (source)
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    Not a latent echo in the house, ... not a sigh among the leafless boughs of one despondent poplar, ... but fell upon the heart of Scrooge with a softening influence, and gave a freer passage to his tears.  (source)
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    With a few despondent slashes of his pencil, Max randomly assigned numbers to the blank spaces before surrendering his exam.  (source)
    despondent = depressed
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    Maybe Haymitch's noticed my despondency and is trying to cheer me up a bit.  (source)
    despondency = depression
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    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
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    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
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    I knew right then I was in the sloop of despond.  (source)
    despond = depression
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    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)
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    Fagin sighed, and shook his head despondingly.  (source)
    despondingly = in a depressed manner
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    Thrice Martin hoped and desponded, and now all his pride was gone.†  (source)
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    But he was so despondent about his own inability to teach what he believed,  (source)
    despondent = emotionally depressed
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    ...his eyes and attitude expressed the utmost sadness and despondency.  (source)
    despondency = depression
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