In a desponding manner; with a sense of losing hope or becoming discouraged.
From 'desponding' (verb form or adjective) plus the adverb suffix '-ly', creating an adverb that describes how an action is performed or how something appears.
When a character speaks despondingly in dialogue, the word itself becomes an instruction to the reader's inner voice—you hear their hopelessness, their slowness, the defeated drag in their words.
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