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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91. The hands are clawed, deformed, seemingly clutching madly or reaching out in desperation.
92. His family, meanwhile, insisted he acted out of desperation to save himself and his pregnant fiancee from an angry crowd.
93. Being driven to desperation, it occurred to him to seek a strong ally.
94. In desperation I held him upside down by his ankles and shook him.
95. Finally, in desperation, he strikes a hammer against the fuel line.
96. Many farmers claim that they have been driven to desperation by the latest blow to the industry.
97. Some analysts fear that increasing desperation could lead to a military invasion of the country's southern neighbors.
98. Tubs, their ribs opening, held the corpses of camellias, their desperation for water manifest.
99. The work of Wordsworth came into existence at the same time as the growing desperation in the cotton mills.
100. But even they had been known to take direct action when driven to desperation.
101. But in their economic desperation, many business and middle-class people have slipped backward(sentencedict.com), politically.
102. Conversing politely over the tea-cups in the huge drawing-rooms, he sensed their quiet desperation.
103. Edouard could see the pleading expression come into his eyes, and the desperation for approval.
104. She had come to Hochhauser in hope and desperation and Gesner had nearly destroyed her.
105. Now he saw his chance and desperation forced him to take the risk of climbing down on to the line in the darkness.
106. In desperation, Dudley went back to the store where he had found the free sign-up disks and picked up another set.
107. Miss Ley waved her arms with comic desperation.
108. The ruffian laid about in desperation.
109. In general, desperation guided treatment of the deranged.
110. Finally, in desperation, she wrote directly to Mrs. Roosevelt.
111. So she's trucking by choice, not desperation.
112. In desperation, he finally broke down the door.
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113. In desperation I joined a physical exercise class.
114. The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation ( Henry David Thoreau ).
115. But WaMu's whip-round shows that the desperation is spreading to Main Street.
116. Her tearfully, because life pressure is too great, oneself just risk danger in desperation offended law.
117. Unless some way is found to stop him, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi of Libya will slaughter hundreds or even thousands of his own people in his desperation to hang on to power.
118. Out of desperation, city engineers began buying up land and water rights in the Owens Valley, east of the Sierra Nevada.
119. If like me, first take my desperation, and don't take it as my self-abasement.
120. The draft paper should get a D rating for desperation and disingenuousness.
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