disillusion

Example Sentences

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With security experts questioning the efficacy of megaprisons and other hardline measures on crime, voters might soon grow disillusioned with the lack of real progress, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal

But he was disillusioned — by the raids, L.A.’s homelessness crisis, high healthcare costs.

From Los Angeles Times

But as the decades passed, he became increasingly disillusioned over what he saw as a wrenching imbalance of power and its corrosive effects on two peoples.

From Los Angeles Times

When Jimmy Carter was elected president, he offered a kind of balm for a country sickened by the Watergate scandal and disillusioned by the Vietnam War.

From Los Angeles Times

And when social inequality became a stronger theme in Korean films and shows - such as Parasite and Squid Game – it attracted global viewers disillusioned with capitalism and a yawning wealth divide in their countries.

From BBC