despair
noun
loss of hope; hopelessness.
have despaired
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present perfectof despair.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Some traditionalists, like former Washington Post editor Marty Baron, have despaired over some of these changes.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 25, 2024
I, too, have despaired of going down this written road year after year, month after month, seemingly day after day.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 14, 2022
The ghost of Mary Pickford — who banned women from wearing pantsuits at the charity soirees she allowed on her lawns — would have despaired, “Are the shades of Pickfair to be thus polluted?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2022
Kirstein seems at one point to have despaired: “Balanchine, c’est un homme perdu.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2019
My dear Miss Lydia, By now you have despaired of me and decided that I am a man who does not honor his word.
From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson
