despondently

despondent | American Dictionary

despondent
adjective
us/dɪˈspɑn·dənt/
unhappy and discouraged because you feel you are in a situation that is unlikely to improve:
He grew increasingly despondent when his paintings failed to sell.

Examples of despondent

despondent
After this scene, all optimism vanished, leaving the members thoroughly despondent.
This intense and despondent crying appeared when patients were confronted with events they could not handle, that affected them emotionally.
But the resulting bass line uses tonal homing as a repetitive, despondent gesture.
These people discourage easily, and can become despondent.
By naively attaching a positive being to the negative pronoun, the play dramatises the alternative which is suppressed inside the repeated and despondent 'nobody'.
Its membership is described as 'undiscerning ', parochial and ' despondent ' (p. 188).
However, on becoming trusted professionals, members of the elderly resource team often felt despondent and frustrated about their cases, like their primary care colleagues before them.
Fourteen adjectives, derived from existing mood adjective checklists, describe purely affective components of depressed mood (defeated, dejected, depressed, despondent, downhearted, gloomy, helpless, hopeless, low, miserable, sad, sluggish, tired, unhappy).
Better weather in 1938 also helped improve yields but the decline in prices was a bitter blow to growers, leaving them both deeply frustrated and despondent.
In this important debate, we must be careful not to he too despondent, not to utter contagious pessimism, as it were, in every direction.
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