desperater

Definitions

comparative form of desperate: more desperate

comparative, form-of, rare

Examples

““But I never thought I’d be arrested on such a charge as that.” / “Somethin’ a little desperater than that, hey?” Berdan interrogated with unexpected quickness.”

“‘Madam,’ I says pretty severe, ‘don’t trifle with me. I’m a desperate man, and my friend here is even desperater than what I am. Remember⟳ you are alone, and at our mercy and—’”

“You see⟳, it’s a mighty responsible position I’ve got—the United States government pays me 12 1-2 cents for every trip⟳ I make⟳ with this bunch of mail, and I guess⟳ they know⟳ I’m not the kind of person to be trifled with. There’s desperate characters about sometimes, but I’m desperater than any of them, especially when I’m a leetle scared.”

“Now desperate Joe Engel, who sometimes can get⟳ desperater than anybody, is interested in Jesse Levan, who butchered first base⟳ in the name⟳ of the Crackers last⟳ spring⟳.”

“He was moody and that moodiness carried over into his music, and even though we all knew that fame was a whore, Harry thought she was a lover, that was his style, elegance in poverty, man, he was desperater than Lady, too bad he didn’t have⟳ the talent.”

“Then I stopped. Just stopped. This feeling came over me, like⟳ a thrown bucket of water. I wasn’t tired, I wasn’t any desperater than I’d been the minute before. I just stopped.”

“The party starts in four minutes and you’re desperater than desperate. Simply stick⟳ a bunch of sticky notes on your clothes and go as the half-man/half-presentation known as Sticky Note⟳ Man.”

“Finally, they got desperater than they could stand⟳ and they fought back and, when it was over, hundreds of Santee Sioux was taken prisoner and put⟳ straight on trial by the army without no lawyers nor jury, not even no one to translate⟳ for them so they could know⟳ what everyone was yattering about. […] If them two turned up here at the same time, I was in even more desperater trouble⟳, if that was possible.”

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