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View definitions for desperately

desperately

adverb as in frightfully

Weak match

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She described how she rushed into the dance studio as she desperately tried to find her daughter.

From BBC

There was praise too for the medics who saved his life and tried desperately to halt the other lunch guests' brutal decline.

From BBC

They are now desperately seeking to borrow or ventriloquize just enough of the far-right agenda to win elections without going all the way to blood-and-soil racism or entirely shredding the social contract.

From Salon

Soon after completing his shipping container house, Uyeda began having conversations with his now business partner Adam Wininger about how the rise of Airbnb was converting desperately needed housing in the desert to vacation rentals.

She broke in the eighth game to give herself the chance to serve for the match as Swiatek turned desperately to her coaching box for guidance.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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