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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61. In desperation, he gave one last, vicious backward kick and launched himself out into the dark.
62. In May 1979, partly out of desperation, we entered upon a great experiment.
63. We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons: inspiration or desperation. Jim Rohn
64. Had he understood that in her desperation to avert financial tragedy she might be willing to barter her body?
65. And, like the romantic fool I was, I thought Mathilda was only offering herself in an act of desperation.
66. Anger that she wasn't answering now combined with concern and something approaching desperation in his mind.
67. Muttering frustratedly as she struggled to undo it, in desperation she wriggled free of him to make it easier.
68. So, the political irrelevance of our subjects did not diminish our desperation.
69. In his desperation to escape, he fumbled the lever and the door jammed partly open.
70. In desperation, they asked Sally Carmichael for eight of her tallest girls to make up the line.
71. There was a mood of quiet desperation about Mr and Mrs Quigley.
72. In desperation, WordPerfect has let Borland International, a Californian rival, bundle its word-processor into a software package.
73. A half-hour they have lamented, Shaking their voices in desperation.
74. And so we look, with increasing desperation, toward the institutions that have fostered social mobility in the past.
75. Confusing stories are circulating along with rumours and half-truths as people, in their desperation, try to help find the murderers.
76. He claimed Labour had shown desperation tactics by naming four-year-old Matthew to justify a party political broadcast.
77. Since the soldiery could only live by looting, the peasantry were rising out of sheer desperation.
78. In a night of frantic desperation, rumours of the drug scandal were leaking by the hour.
79. She was a heartless, money-grabbing woman who made her fortune from the misery and desperation of others.
80. In desperation he glanced round the kitchen for a fire-escape.
81. The husband belongs to Scarlet, a woman whose life of quiet desperation threatens to overwhelm her.
82. She peered out into the moonlit garden and felt a wave of desperation sweep over her.
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83. Finally, out of desperation, even mainstream politicians began to search for new approaches.
84. He often raises that subject, and we understand his desperation about what will happen to his seat at the next election.
85. In desperation, under pressure from a tight Defence Ministry deadline, they consulted Oengo.
86. In the face of the city's desperation he expressed his melancholy through his painting.
87. Crusaders did have tough luck seconds before the final whistle when a desperation drive by Jim Gardiner bounced off the crossbar.
88. In desperation I sometimes reverted to tuning step-by-step by harmonics, something I haven't done for yonks.
89. Even a minor incident reveals his desperate determination to overcome, the desperation of the poor.
90. The reader can appreciate her desperation as her love for Macbeth becomes hopeless.
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