despairing
adjective
given to despair or hopelessness.
despairingly
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a word derived from
despairing.
Example Sentences
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“You’ve quarreled with everyone,” Wilde’s old friend Frank Harris once despairingly informed Douglas, adding that “you have the most imperious temper I’ve ever met.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
“Texas has produced no major writers or major books,” wrote Larry Jeff McMurtry, rather despairingly, in 2011.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2023
“The Egyptians live in the Republic of False Truths,” she writes despairingly to her lover and fellow protester.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 3, 2021
She tried to help a frustrated kindergartner learn how to read and watched despairingly as the kids watched cartoons on their tablets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2021
He can’t save me now, Jonah thought despairingly.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
