despairingly
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Yet few scenes in cinema depict the dismal reality of an ill-advised new marriage better than that of Rosy sitting on her new bed and rather despairingly running her gloved hand across its brass frame.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
And to create this air of discomfort, Fennell crafted a movie that darts from hopeful to despairingly bleak in the blink of an eye.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
In a BBC Radio 4 podcast series exposing the scandal, The Lowball Tapes, Palombo asks despairingly, "If that's not criminal, how can I be a criminal?"
From BBC ● May 25, 2025
One day, she added, despairingly, “This is rough.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 9, 2022
Mo whispered despairingly, "Humbaba of the Seven Auras of Awesomeness."
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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