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disillusionment

noun as in letdown

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Whichever party attacks that problem can help shake us free of our disillusionment with democracy.

The people of Donetsk are clinging to normality, trying to enjoy the spring, but their anger, disillusionment and fear runs deep.

Yet Greece was both inspiration and disillusionment for the poet.

Even by American standards, it was a moment of extravagant uneasiness, disillusionment, and mania.

Gavison is one of many Israeli liberals who drifted right in disillusionment after the second intifada.

Disillusionment cut him to the quick, but had no power to obscure his rosy views of human nature.

Well, you might get it if you tried hard enough, and then only find discontent and disillusionment.

I carefully noted the street and the house, and went away, but not home—I was conscious of a sort of disillusionment.

There would be disillusionment ahead for her, and bitter awakening from long-wrapping dreams.

They are the means by which the age records its feelings of disillusionment.

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On this page you'll find 108 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to disillusionment, such as: adversity, blow, chagrin, defeat, discontent, and disenchantment.

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

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