Sample Sentences for
disillusion
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  • With the release of the Watergate tapes in the 1970s, many Americans became disillusioned with government.
    disillusioned = disappointed from losing false belief that something is better than it is
  • Why should I disillusion them?  (source)
    disillusion = disappoint by removal of false belief that something is better than it is
  • "Who wants a Winter Carnival?" he said in the disillusioned way he had lately developed when I brought it up.  (source)
    disillusioned = disappointed from losing false belief that something is better than it is
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  • Her interpretation of his words disillusioned him.  (source)
    disillusioned = disappointed by removing false belief that something is better than it is
  • They were tears of grief, of anger, of disillusionment.†  (source)
  • But I must disillusion you a little.  (source)
    disillusion = disappoint by removing false belief that something is better than it is
  • It was disillusioning to know how carelessly he used both to do laps in the heady pool of politics.†  (source)
  • Families used to stay in one village reliving the same disillusions.†  (source)
  • The truth seems to be that a long line of disillusive centuries has permanently displaced the Hellenic idea of life, or whatever it may be called.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
  • And it leads to very disillusioned lives.†  (source)
  • Then, one by one, figures began to pop into sight as their Disillusionment Charms lifted.†  (source)
  • But however indubitable that conclusion and the officer's conviction based upon it, Pierre felt it necessary to disillusion him.  (source)
  • In light of the bold and defiant line we had taken all along, an appeal would seem anticlimactic and even disillusioning.†  (source)
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