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View definitions for disillusion

disillusion

verb as in disenchant

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That shock disillusioned progressives who’d bought into the fantasy that Barack Obama’s two presidential terms signaled an evolution to a more equitable future for America.

From Salon

Within a few years, Zwick and Herskovitz were working together on “Thirtysomething,” the ABC drama following a group of disillusioned baby boomers as they came to terms with their middle-class lives.

Put them all together and there is a disillusion and a widespread sense among farmers of not being listened to.

From BBC

By the early aughts an older, wiser Dolours is disillusioned with the meaninglessness of so much bloodshed and pondering what it means to have so many spent matches poking her from inside her pockets.

From Salon

And while it is true that young South Koreans are increasingly disillusioned with marriage in favor of childless or single lifestyles, these changes are not exclusive to women.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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