desperateness

Example Sentences

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In those fatal spring months in New York, the sound inside ambulances conveyed, at least to me, a desperateness even more dire than the wailing sirens ricocheting across the city.

From New York Times • Mar. 11, 2021

This element of overachieving, of desperateness to dazzle, was very camp.

From The New Yorker • May 7, 2019

It's just like free agency when you see a player out there, desperateness drives people to do things that they maybe normally wouldn't have done.

From Chicago Tribune • Jan. 7, 2011

Consider what you call his tolerance, his forbearance, his patience with stubbornness, anger, spitefulness, silliness, sulkiness, belligerency, desperateness, unreasonableness, maliciousness�all the manifestations of hate.

From Time Magazine Archive

The desperateness of the situation, however, roused the government of Theodosius II., who was still upon the throne, to put forth the most energetic efforts to meet the emergency.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 2 "Constantine Pavlovich" to "Convention" by Various