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  • adjective Common misspelling of desperate.

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Examples

  • None are quite as good as the original, but they do paint a portrait of an absolutely spoiled brat who is in desparate need of a whuppin. '

    Archive 2009-10-04 Tyler 2009

  • Having a for-profit health insurance industry clearly has benefitted nobody – except for the health insurance industry. 10-20% annual cost-increases is not indicitive of a good business model, its indicitive of an industry in desparate need of either regulation or dissolution.

    Obama, top Dems to tackle health reform alternatives 2009

  • None are quite as good as the original, but they do paint a portrait of an absolutely spoiled brat who is in desparate need of a whuppin. '

    THNTS 500 Tyler 2009

  • They're in desparate need of a party that reflects the motto "people don't kill people, guns kill people".

    Our Supreme Moment 2008

  • This country is in desparate need of someone who can not only unify this party, but unify this nation.

    Campaign advisers quit over foreign links, meetings 2008

  • I am in desparate need of a haircut, but whenever I use this conditioner my hair feels soft and healthy again.

    Archive 2006-06-01 2006

  • I am in desparate need of a haircut, but whenever I use this conditioner my hair feels soft and healthy again.

    Notes on Stuff 2006

  • People apparently have been sent there from hotels and they are in desparate straights yet again

    Think Progress » Rumsfeld Continues To Blame Newspapers 2005

  • Some editing for puncutation needed, of course, but I’m in desparate straits for humor now, so it didn’t matter.

    FIRST DATE • by Dave Macpherson 2009

  • It’s too bad that you didn’t take time to really read the message behind the company and why it was started instead of focusing on the fact that they are making some money now (although they weren’t even breaking even for several years before they got funding) from an idea to help other people and raise awareness for a cause in desparate need.

    We’ll sell you water… and then sell you a bridge « BuzzMachine 2005

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