disenchantment

Example Sentences

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Agitation, on the other hand—the sort of I-told-ya-so infighting, finger-pointing, and disenchantment which followed Sunday’s rude playoff dismissal by San Francisco?

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 12, 2026

"Extremism, radicalism and populism feed off this lack of trust, disinformation, inequalities, disenchantment with the present and doubts about how to face the future."

From Barron's • Dec. 24, 2025

The two bonded over their disenchantment with the siloed world of academia and their belief that philosophy can be helpful to more people, if only they studied it.

From New York Times • Jun. 13, 2024

Director Hannah Olson says her HBO docuseries ‘Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God’ isn’t a film about cults, but instead is an ‘American tragedy about disenchantment with the American dream.’

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2024

All the totems of Bull’s disenchantment with the South could be carved from pillars of congealed grits.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy