nondesperate
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]nondesperate (not comparable)
- Not desperate.
- 2008 May 4, Helen Schulman, “Cheating Hearts”, in New York Times[1]:
- For Jean, who has found working from the island — with its “miniature rain forest and ... the jammed markets, the friendly, nondesperate people, the bright and thrillingly imperiled birdlife” — something of a “prolonged junket with sunshine and copy,” and who still thinks that a bit of jam stuck to the corner of her longtime husband’s mouth at breakfast is somehow endearing, the prospect of blowing up the marriage is fairly daunting.