despondent

“I feel despondent about the City Council’s lack of interest in keeping places like this going and highlighting them as spots to be looked after and cared for.”

In this case, it’s a subplot about despondent self-deporting animals who resolve to flee Oz because their home has become hostile to their kind: “We can’t stay here. It’s become rotten,” says a bear.

Hope is a commodity in short supply for the town’s despondent and fearful residents.

It was never going to be a quick fix, as she admitted after the game while cutting a despondent figure in her media duties.

Ms Musvava, dressed in a bright orange winter jumper and a white hat, appeared despondent.