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.
But he was disillusioned — by the raids, L.A.’s homelessness crisis, high healthcare costs.
From Los Angeles Times
But access to these archives remains an unobtainable threshold for many people, according to a growing number of voices who have grown disillusioned with at least some aspects of this model.
From Salon
As a young mother, Paulina grows disillusioned with her home life and yearns for independence and a space she can call her own.
From Los Angeles Times
The young men — disillusioned with the moribund Israeli-Palestinian peace process and with the undemocratic Palestinian Authority — have made the Old City a sort of private fiefdom.
From Seattle Times
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