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desparate

a. (misspelling of desperate English)

Usage examples of "desparate".

And so they were able to watch unmolested as the robots came marching down a street, driving a desparate army of refugees before them.

VI One with the ruined sunset, The strange forsaken sands, What is it waits, and wanders, And signs with desparate hands?