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List of antonyms from "desolate" to antonyms from "destroy"


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Definition of the day : « despondent »

  • adj depressed
Example sentences :
  • "It won't work; you never could do it," objected Dixon, with despondent conviction.
  • Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser
  • I cannot honestly say now whether I ever shared this despondent view or not.
  • Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic
  • Mournful, despondent, half broken-hearted, she resumed her journey.
  • Extract from : « Alice, or The Mysteries, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • With a heavy sigh and a despondent air, Arthur Clennam slowly rose.
  • Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens
  • They fell into a despondent reverie, with their chins in their bosoms.
  • Extract from : « The Gentleman From Indiana » by Booth Tarkington
  • But the colonel's despondent look expressed his powerlessness.
  • Extract from : « The Downfall » by Emile Zola
  • He wandered around the house and lights, gloomy, restless and despondent.
  • Extract from : « The Woman-Haters » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • The ladies at Manor Cross thought that they saw what was coming, and were despondent.
  • Extract from : « Is He Popenjoy? » by Anthony Trollope
  • Alice was so despondent over her financial stress, that she knew not what to do.
  • Extract from : « Oswald Langdon » by Carson Jay Lee
  • He was, consequently, as despondent as ever his predecessor had been.
  • Extract from : « The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) » by Henry Martyn Baird