desperation

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[ US /ˌdɛspɝˈeɪʃən, ˌdɛspɝˈeɪʃɪn/ ]
[ UK /dˌɛspəɹˈe‍ɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. a state in which all hope is lost or absent
    they were rescued from despair at the last minute
    courage born of desperation
    in the depths of despair
  2. desperate recklessness
    it was a policy of desperation

How To Use desperation In A Sentence

  • The burden of his espionage responsibilities gives him a distinct air of desperation.
  • We realized with a sense of growing desperation that nobody knew we were in there.
  • whatsit", and then Dr Watson may decide that dumpreg. exe is itself unresponsive so it launches further instance (s) of dumpreg. exe to report the failure (s) of the previous instance (s), and the system suffers a fatal embrace and hardly ever looks at the mouse and keyboard to see me hammering away in desperation. DonationCoder.com Forum
  • He is alone with his terrors gripped by feelings of desperation and living at the limits.
  • What is tragically evident from the Harry Read Me file is the picture it gives of the CRU scientists hopelessly at sea with the complex computer programmes they had devised to contort their data in the approved direction, more than once expressing their own desperation at how difficult it was to get the desired results. Coyote Blog » 2009 » November
  • Perhaps acknowledging this incongruity, he spoofed his desperation in a series of photographs that mock his suicide.
  • Frustration, anger and desperation have led to a series of wildcat strikes.
  • It was a gesture of sheer desperation. Times, Sunday Times
  • MCINTYRE: General Jones says he did not use the term reinforcements because that connotes a panic and desperation he says is unwarranted. CNN Transcript Sep 7, 2006
  • This would be an extreme act at one end of the spectrum of economic desperation.
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