despondently
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]despondent + -ly
Adverb
[edit]despondently (comparative more despondently, superlative most despondently)
- In a despondent manner.
- 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 205:
- Behind this raw matter one of the reclaimed, the product of the new forces at work, strolled despondently, carrying a rifle by its middle.