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UK
/dɪspˈɒndənsi/
]
[ US /dɪˈspɑndənsi/ ]
[ US /dɪˈspɑndənsi/ ]
NOUN
- feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless
How To Use despondency In A Sentence
- ‘Maria Maria Maria’ is simply gorgeous - a dark, reverb-soaked slab of despondency with a lyrical combination of absurdism and sincerity that could only have come from Merritt.
- This is not someone who views the way ahead with gloom and despondency.
- Practice periods that end in gloom and despondency must be avoided - they have the opposite effect of reinforcing or "conditioning" helplessness. The Secrets of Musical Confidence
- He loves spreading alarm and despondency.
- We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression.
- Just as it's right that we avoid smug complacency, so we shouldn't tumble into despondency and despair.
- Their memories of the past will necessarily be plural as well as conflicting, bringing with them both joy and sorrow, both rejoicing and mourning, both happiness as well as despondency.
- Inhalation of mercury vapor over a long period may cause mercurialism which is characterized by fine tremors and erethism" "" Erethism may be manifested by abnormal shyness, blushing, self-consciousness, depression or despondency, resentment of criticism, irritability or excitability, headache, fatigue and insomnia. THE MERCURY MISCHIEF: As Obama Warns of Hazards, the FDA Approves Mercury Dental Fillings
- Providence in mercy permits the union of families long to remain unbroken; and, at length, in _mercy_ too -- whatever the suggestions of despondency -- dissolves it. Female Scripture Biographies, Volume I
- By the quantity of provision which I had consumed I should guess that I had passed three weeks in this journey; and the continual protraction of hope, returning back upon the heart, often wrung bitter drops of despondency and grief from my eyes. Chapter 7