despondent

Example Sentences

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“I feel despondent about the City Council’s lack of interest in keeping places like this going and highlighting them as spots to be looked after and cared for.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Friends recalled her bordering on despondent in the months afterward.

From New York Times

"So has the person dementia or is maybe despondent or suicidal? I'll take that and basically put in onto a map of what people are likely to do."

From BBC

“People feel despondent, with no hope, and they feel that they don’t want to face their pain any longer.”

From Washington Times

Alexander, or Sandy, a lawyer and Midwesterner who shed his gentile background, is despondent, near-suicidal over his failing marriage and “the full catastrophe” of recent history.

From Washington Post