disillusioned

adjective

dis·​il·​lu·​sion·​ed ˌdis-ə-ˈlü-zhənd 

: having lost faith or trust in something formerly regarded as good or valuable

becoming more and more disillusioned with politics

Overworked, tired, disillusioned, with a shaky marriage, the district attorney finally gets a case that he really wants to prosecute.

—The New York Times Book Review

The camps grew restive and disillusioned, but refused to give up.

—Nora Levin

The disillusioned children of troubled marriages suffer from their parents' transgressions long into adulthood.

—Marianne Gingher

Examples of disillusioned in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Johnson is also expected to almost certainly face a removal threat from conservatives Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Thomas Massie, R-Ky., who have become disillusioned with the speaker for even entertaining negotiating with Democrats. —USA TODAY, 17 Apr. 2024

Left and right are disillusioned, angry and skeptical over whether the trial’s verdict will produce either justice or clarity at a time when mistrust of government is high and disinformation is insidious. —Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2024

Domingo’s love of clothing that first brought him to New York to study fashion design at Parsons, before growing disillusioned and moving to Baltimore to study music at Peabody at Johns Hopkins. —Kyle Beechey, Vogue, 15 Apr. 2024

Convincing those disillusioned, often younger, progressive voters to mobilize for Biden again will be one of his campaign’s central challenges this year. —Jess Bidgood, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2024

While her family had lived in California for generations, Skouras was becoming more and more disillusioned with life there, and began flirting with the idea of relocating to a different country once her daughter had graduated from high school and left for university. —Cnn.com, The Mercury News, 1 Apr. 2024

Is the road to great wealth inevitably strewn with the wounded, the disappointed, the cheated and the disillusioned? —Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2024

Many disillusioned Venezuelans have emigrated, but some retain their blind devotion to Chavismo. —Paula Ramón, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024

Ultimately, not holding as much wealth as managers before them—despite putting in the same amount of work, if not more—is leaving millennials feeling disillusioned, undervalued, and exhausted. —Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 14 Feb. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1858, in the meaning defined above