[ adv ] with desperation <adv.all> `Why can't you understand?,' she asked despairingly
Despondent \De*spond"ent\, a. [L. despondens, -entis, p. pr. of despond[=e]re.] Marked by despondence; given to despondence; low-spirited; as, a despondent manner; a despondent prisoner. -- {De*spond"ent*ly}, adv.
Many Indian fighters have defected and are being armed and paid by the Sandinistas to fight the Contras; others sit despondently in Honduran and Costa Rican refugee camps.
But Mobius is unlikely to be in there fighting for a share of the initial offers. 'We want to buy when others are despondently selling,' he says.