look desperate

Frequency: 7.8110.5 per million words

To have an appearance of being desperate.

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Examples (10)

  • With his torn clothes and pleading eyes, the man looked utterly desperate.
  • After days without finding water, the hikers began to look desperate.
  • Try not to look too desperate during the job interview; project confidence instead.
  • She looked desperate as she searched the crowd for her lost child.
  • You'll start to look desperate if you call her again so soon after the first date.
  • The failing company's CEO looked desperate while begging for another loan.
  • I must have looked desperate, because a kind stranger offered me help.
  • As the deadline approached, the student started to look increasingly desperate.
  • A defendant who looks desperate in court might seem guilty to the jury.
  • He didn't say a word, but his face looked so desperate that I knew something was wrong.