despondency

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His was a platform that may well have been ideal for despondency.

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The initial excitement of a leadership contest and the opportunity to renew their party in opposition has given way, for many Conservative MPs, to a deep and deepening despondency.

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The group's UK Director, Luke Tryl, diagnoses a "despondency or misery about the state of Britain that doesn't feel sustainable".

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What you were left with at the end was a feeling of despondency at how poor Scotland actually were.

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"To get constant rejections just left me in an even deeper pit of despair and despondency."

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