Desparingly

I'm six months pregnant with our first and cackling maniacally -or perhaps desparingly-under my breath at my desk at this glorious rite of passage I can neither avoid or delay. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Many oppressed people desparingly yearned for a powerful hero to defy the oppressors on their behalf. ❋ Jan (2008)

No one is less disposed to think lightly of the present dignity, or desparingly of the future hopes, of the only consciously intelligent denizen of this world. ❋ Unknown (2007)

"Oh, do stop messing about with books and letters!" said Ern desparingly. ❋ Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 (1961)

He grabbed Clancy's outstretched hand desparingly, and was assisted to climb over the bulwarks. ❋ Burt L. Standish (1905)

Beverly sat down white and desparingly calm -- Beverly, whose up-bubbling spirits nobody could repress. ❋ Margaret Hill McCarter (1899)

Three hours later Justine Delande's arms clung desparingly around the handsome outcast, as he was leaving her to be escorted home by the adroit Francois, already in waiting without the restaurant with a closed carriage. ❋ Richard Savage (1874)

They said I nearly fainted, but I realized nothing save the ludicrous figure I presented, and I thought desparingly "Emily did it." ❋ Martha Lewis Beckwith Ewell (1871)

They were fixed desparingly, perhaps unconsciously, upon that small grating which looked into the upper world. ❋ Unknown (1847)

Why has this thread become desparingly personal anyway ..? ❋ Unknown (2009)

* cries desparingly* sing - scream clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right. ❋ Sierrazen (2005)

I’m six months pregnant with our first and cackling maniacally - or perhaps desparingly-under my breath at my desk at this glorious rite of passage I can neither avoid or delay. ❋ Unknown (2009)