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Dejectedly, hopelessly
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despondently
Word definitions for despondently in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adv. with desperation; "`Why can't you understand?,' she asked despairingly" [syn: despairingly ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
adv. In a despondent manner.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Despondent \De*spond"ent\, a. [L. despondens, -entis, p. pr. of despond[=e]re.] Marked by despondence; given to despondence; low-spirited; as, a despondent manner; a despondent prisoner. -- De*spond"ent*ly , adv.
Usage examples of despondently.
Doctor Fearnaught, too, remained silent, but morosely so, lugubriously so, despondently so.
Next morning I might have been inclined to dwell despondently on my chastening experience but I had a prebreakfast call to a cow with a prolapsed uterus and there is nothing like an hour of feverish activity to rid the mind of brooding.
Staring despondently toward the river, Don brushed rainsoaked strands of hair from his forehead, sickened by the frantic pounding of his heart.
She probably doesn't even go to the bathroom, or have to wax her bikini line, Lorell thought despondently.
With lips still quivering, he rose and trudged outside reluctantly to break the bad news to Gus and Wes, discreetly avoiding any conversation with Doc Daneeka himself as he moved by the flight surgeon's slight sepulchral figure roosting despondently on his stool in the late-afternoon sunlight between the orderly room and the medical tent.
She now despondently surveyed her bric-a-brac and was wondering how she was going to sell cracked 78s, single book-ends, cake knives, jigsaw puzzles of Norwegian fjords, purple plastic roses and a flowered vase she had given Hermione last Christmas, when Lysander came rushing up.