(a.) Marked by despondence; given to despondence; low-spirited; as, a despondent manner; a despondent prisoner.
Example Sentences:
(1) After she hit the two-year mark, five-month mark, she’s been despondent.
(2) It was hard to reconcile Pistorius's despondent figure in black suit and tie and white shirt with the "blade runner" who thrilled stadiums around the world and became the first amputee to run in the Olympics .
(3) But actually what we felt as the days and weeks passed – me and Kelly and my father – was a sense of despondency, of being let down, of just sinking through the system.
(4) In 46%, the subject had expressed despondency over illness.
(5) There is a sense of despondency spreading in Pakistan.
(6) The value of Brazil's currency, the real, has ballooned since President Lula took power, leaving exporters despondent and leading Goldman Sachs to classify it as the most overvalued currency on earth.
(7) , became a battle manual for despondent Democrats after George W Bush’s second election victory.
(8) He told worshippers at Durham cathedral: "It is very easy to be despondent about the church.
(9) Pablo Simón, a political science professor at Madrid’s Carlos III University, argues that a fresh election and the attendant politicking could further alienate an already despondent electorate.
(10) In Spike Jonze 's Her, set in a near future LA, Phoenix is Theodore, a despondent, solitary writer whose life picks up when he falls in love with Samantha, a portable, artificially intelligent operating system who provides more than he could have hoped for.
(11) [It is] all the Ds: despair, depression, despondency.” “Chinese media are under a lot of pressure right now.
(12) Jose Mourinho: Rafa Benitez destroyed my work at Inter within six months Read more There wasn’t too much to get excited or despondent about in any of the displays in New York, Charlotte or here in Washington DC.
(13) Rob came very close to death many times, and I think part of James's despondency now comes from having saved Rob so many times, only to lose him in the end.
(14) They have been left despondent by Francis's occasional comments on the issue, in which he has generally defended the church while condemning the abuse.
(15) Despondent MPs tonight voiced fears that Britain may experience a milder version of the "clean hands" affair that brought down Italy's postwar political settlement in the 1990s.
(16) Strong was despondent over Bilibid but recovered and developed a noteworthy career in American tropical medicine.
(17) It has been demonstrated that a small proportion of women taking oral contraceptives develop a depressive syndrome characterized by despondency, tension, and changes in sex desire.
(18) A classic portrait of the grieving widower, his despondency did not surprise mental health professionals.
(19) For those who don't get the results they hoped for – and their chosen universities – the moments after the envelope are full of dread and despondency.
(20) It is easy to see why players bounce off Klopp and indeed it was tempting to wonder if Chelsea’s despondent players were casting the occasional envious glance at the German, whose energetic and engrossing touchline demeanour offered a welcome shade of light next to José Mourinho ’s dark scowl.
Woebegone
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) This was the tragedy that established Bridge Farm as the most woebegone of Archers homesteads.
(2) You have understood that come the day when no one believes in you, when you are no more than a woebegone troll, no one will want you.” Although a fan of the press, Moses acknowledged Ipso would occasionally make unpopular decisions: “But we are not here to be popular.
(3) Woebegone Andrew Lansley was assured there would be "no stepping off the gas".
(4) Samuel Eto'o, to take one case history, is a woebegone character in futile search of the predatory skills he has mislaid.
(5) Sometimes there are obstacles plonked in front of the door: anything from high chairs, bikes and toilet rolls to – I remember once – three woebegone dogs.