Synonym: despair. Similar words: exasperation, desperate, desperately, operation, AND operation, alliteration, generation gap, proliferation. Meaning: [‚despə'reɪʃn] n. 1. a state in which everything seems wrong and will turn out badly 2. desperate recklessness.
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31. Quiet reaction in camps masks desperation of boat people.
32. After all, indiscretion is only the flowering of desperation.
33. In desperation she thought of Ian and Theodora.
34. There is a quiet desperation around the whole area.
35. Even his last act of desperation proved a failure.
36. Dumping sometimes comes out of desperation.
37. Here, lawlessness, poverty and desperation were the norm.
38. In desperation I changed tack.
39. It was just a feeling of anger and desperation.
40. Desperation can make a person do surprising things. Veronica Roth
41. Her feelings of desperation were made worse by the nearly constant lower back pain she endured.
42. The plan was simple, for simplicity is born of desperation.
43. Fifty runs were assembled in the first 15 overs, but even maintaining that rate required a certain air of desperation.
44. At least the folks who roast all those chickens know it for what it is-a tortured posturing, a feigned desperation.
45. I choose to rise up out of that storm and see that in moments of desperation, fear, and helplessness, each of us can be a rainbow of hope, doing what we can to extend ourselves in kindness and grace to one another. And I know for sure that there is no them - there's only us. Oprah Winfrey
46. Why do you think Thoreau said lives of quiet desperation?
47. She learned it from impoverished people who had come to her in desperation.
48. In desperation the Minister leaned forward and grabbed the automatic gear stick, throwing it into reverse.
49. He knew his wife: for her, any form of desperation was suspect.
50. It is a sign of the economic desperation that young people even aspire to work in impoverished Moscow and Bucharest.
51. They sat in the littered corners at the ends, beggars in various states of desperation waiting mutely for handouts.
52. Las Vegas, capital of sin, hope and desperation in this country[sentencedict.com/desperation.html], is a fertile area for passengers.
53. Talking to Leo had brought it all back, the hurt, the desperation, the painful break with her family.
54. I came to you out of desperation - you've got to help me.
55. Out of some sort of desperation she seemed to want to degrade herself.
56. He seeks to blackmail Headstone but succeeds only in driving the man to desperation.
57. Other self-defeating organizations rely on insincere optimism and empty slogans to mask an inner sense of desperation.
58. He is a supply hooligan, acting out of desperation not loyalty.
59. I pressed the buzzer, pressed both buzzers, pressed all the buzzers for the entire building-complex in desperation.
60. The result is sometimes desperation prose, each individual phrase clamouring for attention.
More similar words: exasperation, desperate, desperately, operation, AND operation, alliteration, generation gap, proliferation, confederation, consideration, ratification, gratification, desolation, designation, destination, oration, desalination, speculation, rational, duration, dispensation, migration, adoration, predestination, reparation, admiration, separation, irrational, aspiration, aberration.