noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
drive sb to despair/desperation (= make someone despair )
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Escalating personal debts have driven many people to despair.
quiet confidence/satisfaction/desperation (= having a particular feeling but not talking about it )
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a woman whose life of quiet desperation threatens to overwhelm her
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
quiet
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There was a mood of quiet desperation about Mr and Mrs Quigley.
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Why do you think Thoreau said lives of quiet desperation ?
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Conversing politely over the tea-cups in the huge drawing-rooms, he sensed their quiet desperation .
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There is a quiet desperation around the whole area.
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The husband belongs to Scarlet, a woman whose life of quiet desperation threatens to overwhelm her.
■ VERB
drive
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He seeks to blackmail Headstone but succeeds only in driving the man to desperation .
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Being driven to desperation , it occurred to him to seek a strong ally.
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But even they had been known to take direct action when driven to desperation .
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Boredom and isolation were driving Polly to desperation .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Anger that she wasn't answering now combined with concern and something approaching desperation in his mind.
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Even a minor incident reveals his desperate determination to overcome, the desperation of the poor.
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Even his last act of desperation proved a failure.
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Here, lawlessness, poverty and desperation were the norm.
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I went to the police in desperation !
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It was just a feeling of anger and desperation .
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Other self-defeating organizations rely on insincere optimism and empty slogans to mask an inner sense of desperation .