despairingly
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]despairing + -ly
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]despairingly (comparative more despairingly, superlative most despairingly)
- In a despairing manner.
- 1923, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter IV, in Leave It to Psmith:
- It was raining. She was over there, crouched despairingly beneath the awning of that shop. She wanted to be elsewhere, but the moisture lay in wait to damage her hat.