despondent
Definition: Discouraged; disheartened
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Edwin Brothertoft - By Theodore Winthrop
...No wonder Mr. Brothertoft had been despondent so that even his back showed it,--so despondent, that the well-sweep longed to douse him with a bucket of balm ....
A Duet - By Arthur Conan Doyle
...Hale was a despondent man, though the most loyal of friends, and he spoke in a despondent way ....
An Original Belle - By Edward Payson Roe
...I have been growing despondent during the last few hours . "...
The Small House at Allington - By Anthony Trollope, John Everett Millais
...Then he shambled away, and as soon as he was alone, again became sad and despondent ....
The Scarlet Letter - By Nathaniel Hawthorne, Joseph Hatton
...He expressed great alarm at his pastor 's state of health, but was anxious to attempt the cure, and, if early undertaken, seemed not despondent of a favorable result ....
A Christmas Carol - By Charles Dickens, Albert Franklin Blaisdell
...Not a latent echo in the house, not a squeak and scuffle from the mice behind the paneling, not a drip from the half-thawed water-spout in the dull yard behind, not a sigh among the leafless boughs of one despondent poplar, not the idle swinging of an empty store-house door, no, not a clicking in the fire, but fell upon the heart of Scrooge with softening influence, and gave a freer passage to his tears ....
A Tale of Two Cities - By Charles Dickens, Frederick S Boas, T. H. Allen
...The Marquis took a gentle little pinch of snuff, and shook his head; as elegantly despondent as he could becomingly be of a country still containing himself, that great means of regeneration . "...
Wuthering Heights - By Emily Bront
...were expressed, but I was grown timid and despondent, and could not help fearing that some dreadful calamity awaited us there ....
The Prince and the Pauper - By Mark Twain
...But at last he heaved a sigh, shook his head slowly, and said, with a trembling lip and in a despondent voice : `` I call the scene back--all of it--but the Seal hath no place in it . "...
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - By James Joyce
...I most certainly should not be despondent ....
O Pioneers! - By Willa Cather
...She had never been out of the cornfields, and a few years ago she got despondent and said life was just the same thing over and over, and she did n't see the use of it ....
The House of Mirth - By Edith Wharton, A. B. Wenzell
...She hid her eyes with a shudder, beholding herself at the entrance of that ever-narrowing perspective down which she had seen Miss Silverton 's dowdy figure take its despondent way ....
Babbitt - By Sinclair Lewis, Jean Hersholt Collection of Sinclair Lewis (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress)
...They became despondent ....
The House of the Seven Gables - By Nathaniel Hawthorne, Katharine Lee Bates
...If ever I should have a biographer, he ought to make great mention of this chamber in my memoirs, because so much of my lonely youth was wasted here, and here my mind and character were formed; and here I have been glad and hopeful, and here I have been despondent ....