despondent
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Hathaway can handle anything, from a despondent housewife to a rifle-toting badass, but I’ve never seen her tasked to do both in a film this brisk.
From Los Angeles Times โ Aug. 12, 2026
In this picture I am despondent, resentful, rageful.
From Slate โ Jul. 6, 2026
But this year there was not enough spring rain and its rice farmers are despondent.
From Barron's โ Jul. 4, 2026
"Everyone knows it's a fix," said one despondent man in Manara Square in Ramallah, who declined to give his name.
From BBC โ May 15, 2026
For the hours that Gogol is at nursery school, finger-painting and learning the English alphabet, Ashima is despondent, unaccustomed, all over again, to being on her own.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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