The Collaborative International Dictionary
Despairing \De*spair"ing\, a. Feeling or expressing despair; hopeless. -- De*spair"ing*ly, adv. -- De*spair"ing*ness, n.
Wiktionary
adv. In a despairing manner.
WordNet
adv. with desperation; "`Why can't you understand?,' she asked despairingly" [syn: despondently]
Usage examples of "despairingly".
His reason must be entirely gone, he told himself despairingly, to even think of trying to approach the Little Sugarplum after all that had happened.
She looked despairingly in the direction that the bogans had taken her friend.
The Italian gunners still inside the hulls fired their machine guns despairingly, but there was no power on their traversing gear and the turrets were frozen.
I walked to the edge of the rockpile and kicked at it despairingly, thinking that she must have failed to reach the shelter in time, that she lay entombed now under that great mass here.
You surround life with taboos, and then--you talk despairingly of the problems with which your own taboos alone have saddled you.
The top of their car was pounded with a hundred drum sticks, and halfway to their front door the Sakkaros stopped and looked despairingly upward.
He didn't feel a small man, but the clothes which hung so despairingly from the nail on the mud wall were definitely the clothes of a small man, comic, make-believe clothes.
The child forks, numerous times, as Amber despairingly plays with probabilities, simulating upbringing outcomes.