Definition of "despairingly" [despairingly]

• In a despairing manner. (adverb)

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• "As he came spluttering to the surface again, "Help, help, Arvid," he called despairingly; "I am drowning!""
• "Some called despairingly the names of wives and daughters who had been among the spectators in that fatal line of wagons."
• "Frankenstein despairingly bewails his attempt as impious, and suffers for it; partial justice is rendered; and many more incidents in the novel might have been pourtrayed, of harrowing interest! though without infringing good taste."