Despairingly [adverb]

The goal is not to spend the next several months despairing.

People who demonstrate tragic optimism suffer the same—and sometimes even more—pain and sorrow in the short term as those who become pessimistic and despairing.

The Goblin looked back despairingly, and Davy just caught the words, "I don't know how to turn around!"

He'll immediately throw down his bunch of flowers and dive despairingly into the moat.

"Girls, I just can't go another step—unless it's toward home," she finished despairingly.

The shock of Jack Dineheart's threat had almost killed her, and Lizette hung over her despairingly.

As he was walking despairingly up and down the seashore, he spied an old man warming himself in the sun.

He'll immediately (extending her arms descriptively) throw down his bunch of flowers and dive despairingly into the moat.

The agent looked round despairingly and caught Colin's look of sympathy.

Burns, who had been walking up and down the room, cast himself into an armchair and stared despairingly at his amanuensis.