DESPAIRING


Meaning of DESPAIRING in English

adjective

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

We are disappointed with the rate of progress, but we are not despairing .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

At the door he turned and gave me a last despairing look and I saw him no more.

Her mouth opened and after a few moments a strange ululation sounded, a despairing cry, a death cry.

None was more despairing than Otto, for if the pope died Otto's position would be immediately weakened.

Once she glanced at her watch and, with a despairing sigh, realised it wasn't even midnight yet.

One is no longer the hopeful or the despairing guest: one is host in the house of oneself.

The despairing , faithless, gaping, horrified wife looked down at her lover, and knew that he was dead.

To Lily, something almost despairing came from the child.

With every day that passed he became ever more despairing and hopeless as messengers brought him reports of the army's casualties.

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