despond
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Clearly, I needed to pull myself out of what John Bunyan called the Slough of Despond.
From Washington Post • Nov. 22, 2021
Particularly rich is the stultifying American nowheresville of Despond, in which Walker finds himself sinking into a general lethargy of spirit, leaving him profoundly disinclined to continue his pursuit of Malory.
From Slate • Jun. 2, 2014
On this interior journey, you hardly mind whether Pilgrim is in the House Beautiful or the Slough of Despond.
From The Guardian • Nov. 11, 2012
Joan Didion's territory is a bleak and joyless neverland located somewhere between Despond and Nostalgia.
From Time Magazine Archive
Despond, de-spond′, v.i. to lose hope or courage: to despair.—ns.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
Vocabulary lists containing despond
Society and Solitude
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Oliver Twist
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Novel Study: Gulliver’s Travels, Parts 3–4
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