Definition of desperatly

(Philip Reaves, "Who Rules the Marriage Bed?"...)

To win her favors , her husband first took an additional job , then desperately began to embezzle from his employer .

(Kenneth Reiner, "Coping with Runaway Technology"...)

We are tempted to blame others for our problems rather than look them straight in the face and realize they are of_our_own making and possible of solution only by ourselves with the help of desperately needed , enlightened , competent leaders .

(Jim Thompson, The Transgressors....)

`` I 'll get_around_to it a_little later '' , he mumbled desperately .

(Ralph J. Salisbury, "On the Old Santa Fe Trail...)

The car was just about to us , its driver 's fat , solemn face intent on the road ahead , on business , on a family in Sante_Fe - on anything but an old pick-up truck in which two human_beings desperately needed rescue .