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• v  lose confidence or hope; become dejected
  The supporters of the Presidential candidate desponded when they learned the early results of the election

• And the party's current despond seemed to enhance the rowdiness in Ames.
• For the American people, the astronaut's triumph came as a particularly welcome gift after a year of disruption and despond.
• Recall, please, the national mood in the 1970s: after the 1960s party, we found ourselves in a slough of despond, with an oil crisis, a terrible recession, declining productivity .

News & Articles

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• First read: New books from a useless Congress to FDR's generals
  We continue be saddened by Washington, D.C.'s incessant wallowing in the Slough of Despond, which writer John Bunyan called '
  June 15, 2013 - Asbury Park Press

Quotes

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• Mike Wallace in NPR
  No matter where I was in the United States or abroad,Wallace said, "He would find me and try to talk me out of the slough of despond that I was in."