despondently

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Despondently, Stan figured it was time to quit.

From Time Magazine Archive

Despondently, I picked a few lice off my sweater but gave up trying to get them all.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson

Around a pale pond huts of beechwood built Despondently squat near the rusty reeds; A lamp of brass hung from the ceiling bleeds Upon the wall and windows blots of gilt.

From Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell by Various

Despondently he went down to the sidewalk and merged himself with the crowd, moving with it though a thousand miles apart from it, and presently diverging, struck across-town toward the Worth Street subway station.

From The Fortune Hunter by Vance, Louis Joseph

Despondently he returned, and came down on the path with the rest of us; his wife took his arm.

From Magnhild Dust by Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne