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Desperate meaning
In dire need (of something); having a dire need or desire. | Being filled with, or in a state of, despair; hopeless. | Beyond hope, leaving little reason for hope; causing despair; extremely perilous.
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Example sentences (20)
As of this writing, the poll was 65.8% of RHOBH fans are desperate for her to join, while 34.2% are not desperate.
Ammar Moussa, a spokesperson for the Harris campaign, called Trump's attack line "a desperate lie from a desperate campaign" that can't change the fact that its candidate has been convicted of multiple felonies.
It turns out that man is desperate to show his ailing wife snowfall one more time before she passes away, a desperate attempt to make up for the lost time he spent working instead of cherishing the time he had with her.
Just as many Americans are growing desperate to make ends meet, Trump is growing desperate to hold onto power — at any cost.
They will be putting everything on the field of play, and they’ll both be desperate, absolutely desperate, to win.
You were central to one of the turning points of the Emmets’ season, when you won that free against Firies late on for David Keane to kick the winning free, desperate times, desperate measures?
Desperate times call for desperate escapism.
Desperate times they say calls for desperate measures.
It appears Sarah will make a desperate getaway with Mickey – the desperate ex-mom will kidnap Rachel!
The company makes desperate play after desperate play to make him your favorite graps guy – with limited success.
Akande noted that it was a season of upcoming elections and desperate politicians resorting to desperate measures.
Anyways, it’s understood, desperate times require desperate actions.
Desperate times call for desperate measures, I suppose.
Desperate times desperate measures.
I hadn’t seen it anywhere since their move, so desperate times called for desperate measures: I found my own recipe.
Is the public truly so desperate for these details, or are reporters just truly desperate for something to write about besides the world being on fire?
Aaron is like the aging former hot chick that was desperate to find someone, anyone (Jets) to go home with just before bar time.
A BRITISH wife has been left desperate for answers after her husband mysteriously vanished on holiday in Greece two years ago.
According to prosecutors, the cornered family man devised a desperate plot to divert attention — which included his own suicide.
Addicts have become more desperate chasing the high, leading to more property and violent crimes, he said.