adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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We are disappointed with the rate of progress, but we are not despairing .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At the door he turned and gave me a last despairing look and I saw him no more.
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Her mouth opened and after a few moments a strange ululation sounded, a despairing cry, a death cry.
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None was more despairing than Otto, for if the pope died Otto's position would be immediately weakened.
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Once she glanced at her watch and, with a despairing sigh, realised it wasn't even midnight yet.
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One is no longer the hopeful or the despairing guest: one is host in the house of oneself.
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The despairing , faithless, gaping, horrified wife looked down at her lover, and knew that he was dead.
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To Lily, something almost despairing came from the child.
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With every day that passed he became ever more despairing and hopeless as messengers brought him reports of the army's casualties.