But take heart sorrowful shoppers, not all purchases we make when despondent are bad ones.
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Our kids are starting to look and sound like Europe's smart kids despondent and resigned.
But that, sadly, wasn't happening today and I'm really quite despondent about the whole situation.
You might think, having heard what Andrew Smith had to say, Willie would be despondent.
The result of all of this is that many Serbs are pretty despondent about the future.
But when Stefan Kuntz equalised 15 minutes later, the sense of despondent superstition returned.
The armies of righteousness, which once threatened to overwhelm the Republican Party, are downcast and despondent.
Tribune editor and outgoing NEC member Mark Seddon told the meeting he had started conference week "despondent".
New Zealand's position had the rather despondent air of England's in the infamous Headingley Test in 1981.
Yet this conversation left me oddly despondent and I found myself grappling to find the solutions they needed.
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Miller was despondent, sitting at his locker and staring straight ahead for several minutes before speaking with reporters.
The other team get a start and they get a lift, we get despondent and we can't come back.
Bradamante is despondent, and Alcina is left to exult over her latest conquest.
But she remains despondent and is afraid to go back to her village.
In the last few months, she's seen many of her patients go from being anxious to being downright despondent.
If journalists are gloomy about the outlook for their industry, printers are despondent.
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He first started experiencing symptoms of depression in the eighth grade, losing a great deal of weight and becoming despondent.
"I hoped we would have come here and turned it around, but we haven't, " a despondent McGhee told BBC Scotland.
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Despondent, he attempted to jump from the bridge and was deterred by a Korean compatriot who happened to pass by.
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The most despondent place in the U.K. is an hour or so west of London, in a town called Slough.
Nevertheless, the recency effect from excessive losses in 2008, as well as the challenging political climate, have investors feeling increasingly despondent.
As the toxic behavior spread, employees started becoming depressed and despondent.
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As I sat with that despondent Thiokol engineer in his home in Utah, my colleague Daniel Zwerdling stood outside a hotel room door in Huntsville, Alabama.
And Khan himself, who despite stopping Michael Gomez in an enthralling encounter at Birmingham's National Indoor Arena, cut a despondent figure in the post fight press conference.
South Africa, crushed by 10 wickets at Trent Bridge and 126 runs in the last game at The Oval must have felt similarly despondent after losing the toss.
From outside the remote prison on the outskirts of Istanbul where the trial was held, Turkish television broadcast live images of despondent relatives after the verdict was announced.
"What's the good of being a democracy if people are hungry and despondent and the infrastructure is not there, " Mr Achebe told the BBC in 2004, explaining his decision.
They were also beaten in the final of both the Twenty20 Cup and the Friends Provident Trophy and their captain Rob Key told BBC Radio Kent he was despondent.
She said young people faced more fear and discrimination in the UK than anywhere else in Europe and she said she felt "pretty despondent" that it would ever change.
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