Showing the loss of all hope:he gave a despairing little shrug...
Charlie collapsed in a chair, giving a despairing little sigh.
She gave no answer to my reproaches, save to gaze at me with a sort of wild, despairing look in her eyes.
About three of their forwards scrambled the ball past our despairing goalie.
Derivatives
despairingly
/dɪˈspɛːrɪŋli /adverb...
But this socializing is a heavy task,’ he says, a little despairingly.
The incomprehensible fact that not everybody's vehicle on planet Earth is powered by this super-efficient waste product of the oil-refining process would doubtless prompt him to shake his head despairingly again.
His wife despairingly asks, ‘What is it that you want?’