disillusionment

disillusion | American Dictionary

disillusion
verb[ T ]
us/ˌdɪs·əˈlu·ʒən/
to disappoint someone by making the person realize the unpleasant truth about something or someone thought to be good:
He’s become disillusioned with his job and the company.

disillusioned

adjectiveus/ˌdɪs·əˈlu·ʒənd/
He died a disillusioned man.

disillusionment

noun[ U ]us/ˌdɪs·əˈlu·ʒən·mənt/

Examples of disillusion

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Those answering 'no respect at all' are as disillusioned as they possibly can be about their country's human rights record.
The basic narrative is one of increasing conflict and disillusion ending with a fragile hope of a better future.
Without confidence in the endurance of the hand the user population will rapidly become disillusioned by the device and reject it.
As they aged, the founders became disillusioned about the directions in which their experiment in self-governance were heading.
However, moderatism was doomed to failure as disillusion polarised political options.
However, the researchers found that often they were critical of and sometimes disillusioned with the system.
Labour identifiers were not significantly more or less likely than other voters to participate, despite any general disillusion occasioned by the party leadership fiasco.
When did you become disillusioned with neoclassical thinking?
The adults in this play are all disillusioned, aren't they.
This changed radically with the pressure to 'unlock' the lands and allow disillusioned gold-seekers to select farms.
Then the 'underground' developed from the 'disillusion with political solutions which followed'.
There is creative play between illusion (the magic of omnipotence) and disillusion (the failure of the outer to correspond to the inner imperatives).
Many ex-samurai, including military and police officers, felt disillusioned and angry with the government under its new leadership.
The same music is used for both takes, the buoyant and the disillusioned.
The rebellious street binds together political dissidents, marginals, the unemployed, and disillusioned youth.
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