desperate
adjective
reckless or dangerous because of despair, hopelessness, or urgency.
desperateness
-
a word derived from
desperate.
Example Sentences
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In those fatal spring months in New York, the sound inside ambulances conveyed, at least to me, a desperateness even more dire than the wailing sirens ricocheting across the city.
From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2021
This element of overachieving, of desperateness to dazzle, was very camp.
From The New Yorker ● May 7, 2019
It's just like free agency when you see a player out there, desperateness drives people to do things that they maybe normally wouldn't have done.
From Chicago Tribune ● Jan. 7, 2011
The desperateness people feel because their lives have been controlled, that's what causes it.
From Time Magazine Archive
The foul elephantine leprosy, alleviated for an hour, re-appears in new force and desperateness next hour.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 by Various
