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desperately
adverb as in severely
adverb as in frightfully
Strongest matches
Weak match
Example Sentences
He exploited a physique that most would try desperately to diminish.
She seemed to create her own world and you desperately wanted to be part of it.
Pro-pipeline Democrats, meanwhile, appeared to be searching desperately for ways to turn a crushing defeat into a moral victory.
And the show desperately needed the likes of Parker to throw Red off his game, to put a stop to his swagger.
Their community, their city, their country, desperately needs them.
At last Aristide fed him desperately, dandled him eventually to sleep, and returned to an excited pillow.
She is immensely rich, one of the ablest political women in London, and Jack is desperately in love with her.
I sometimes think he loved that girl desperately, and would have made her an idolatrous husband.
At the end of the first shocked instant, they both laughed wildly, desperately.
Investigation showed three of the guerrillas dead and three more desperately wounded.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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