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despairingly

adverb as in hopelessly

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"We have no place to stay, 90% of the houses are destroyed," one father told us despairingly as he picked his way through the new piles of rubble.

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"We trust Pope Francis, but we don't trust others to listen to the voice of peace," he says despairingly.

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At one point, he despairingly lists a spate of racist incidents to Hillary after an ugly encounter with an aggressive patron.

He speaks lyrically about winter rains, when the trees grow right out of the rising lake, and despairingly about the recent drops in water levels.

In April, the 38-year-old wrote despairingly: "We now see trigger warnings slapped on Harry Potter. We see George Orwell's 1984 branded 'offensive and upsetting' for students to read."

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

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