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desperate
accident-prone, bleak, crucial, exquisite, great, hurried, maniacal, precipitous, serious, unhopeful
Definition
adj.
arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope
Last update: July 13, 2015
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They prey on the hopes of the
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He was a
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criminal in reality.
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He made a last
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attempt to reach the climber.
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By now he had to be
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to get rid of her.
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Almost
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, I asked for half a cake; she again refused.
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More desolate, more
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than ever, it seemed from contrast.
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He gives vent to
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cries from out of the depths.
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Then he essayed a
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effort.
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He had come to a
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decision.
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Is not this a
desperate
state of things.
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I was very
desperate
indeed there, that I was.
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