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Definition of Desperately
Desperately

In a desperate manner; without regard to danger or safety; recklessly; extremely; as, the troops fought desperately.

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Desperately Quotations

O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
T. S. Eliot

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.
Charlie Chaplin

Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.
Kurt Vonnegut

Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.
Germaine Greer

Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.
Gore Vidal

I so desperately hate to end these movies that the first thing I do when I'm done is write another one. Then I don't feel sad about having to leave and everybody going away.
John Hughes

I so desperately wanted to be Mr. Somebody. Instead, I was the little brother, included to a point.
Charlie Sheen

There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.
James Russell Lowell

Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.
Russell Baker

I think the whole idea of me was that I wasn't going to be but that I wanted to be, desperately.
Chris Elliott

Desperately Translations

desperately in German is verzweifelte
desperately in Spanish is desesperadamente
desperately in Swedish is desperat


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