A state in which everything seems wrong and will turn out badly

Usage examples of desperation.

In desperation Max tried to push his adaptor arm out even farther and nearly damaged himself.

Finally, almost in desperation, he searched for any reference to the Arthurian legends, and lo and behold a single return flickered up onto the screen.

In desperation, Bondo had even sunk to consulting an alchemist, who filled his palace with unpleasant odors and his ears with gibberish, accomplished nothing, and demanded a purse of gold for his nugatory services.

In desperation Cugel tore up branches of brittlebush, whose wood made excellent torches.

In desperation he kicked his legs up to its belly, claws seeking flesh but unable to strike home.

America: the desperation of starving settlers, the special helplessness of the displaced African, the powerful incentive of profit for slave trader and planter, the temptation of superior status for poor whites, the elaborate controls against escape and rebellion, the legal and social punishment of black and white collaboration.

WENT BACK to Cranshaw, feeling hopeless and foolish at my desperation to make one more try to reach her.

Some dogs refused to cooperate, and in desperation, their handlers crawled through the barrel while dragging the dogs through by their leashes.

With the blood pressure crashing, the surgery resident in desperation had performed an emergency laparotomy, hoping to control the internal bleeding.

Fingerhood, Jimmy, her co-star, her husband, the movie composer she screwed in desperation the night she lost the Oscar, the cameraman whose only interest was her labia minora which he said resembled a pink tea rose, the construction worker she picked up on a dare and was let down by with a bang, even the midgetthey all agreed she was a washout in bed.

He had walked the Moonpaths to no effect - so now he tried a desperation move.

The blanket smelled of stale traffic, the corroborating truth a laboratory of research onanists might produce in their methodical throbbing and desperation for pictures.

Ellis Ann had shrunk enough that they were the same height now, and she clung to Rags with what looked like desperation.

In the beginning, they made their homes on some of the less rocky, more southerly islands, refurbishing ancient ruins, farming where decent soil remained, breeding small numbers of stock beasts on the strictly limited graze, fishing, and in times of desperation, raiding the coasts and riverways of their previous homelands to the west.

People who came to Rochdale in formlessness or desperation or freakout, found out what they wanted, and went off to it?