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more desperate

adjective as in extreme, intense

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And as a writer and actor on The Mack, he made that film feel both more desperate and more poignant.

A lesser, more desperate series would be plying her with catchphrases and recalibrating the show around her.

The question is, how to curtail the violence that produces more desperate violence?

As the situation becomes ever more desperate, dissention in the ranks is treated with a brutal response.

In the final section of the book, the sense of dystopia becomes more pronounced and the search for refuge more desperate.

A warmer fire, a more desperate series of combats, was never witnessed in modern warfare.

Since there is no more desperate and wicked member of the gang than am I, of course I was one of the first chosen.

Some were for making to the boats; others, more desperate, were for leaping overboard, expecting the ship to blow up every moment.

The case was so much the more desperate as the storm redoubled its violence, and the darkness had fallen thicker.

But Yale was beginning to work up steadily, forcing Harvard to a more desperate struggle to hold her advantage.

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

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