disillusioned

adjective

Updated on: 21 Apr 2018

: disappointed, dissatisfied

becoming more and more disillusioned with politics

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In popular culture, its most vivid incarnation is John Rambo, the disillusioned Vietnam veteran who purifies an American town with violence in First Blood, the 1982 Sylvester Stallone movie.

— elliott woods, The New Republic, "Essential reporting, interpretation, and opinion on politics and culture. Don't miss our latest.," 16 Apr. 2018
More than a million Venezuelans have fled the nation in recent years amid hyperinflation, hunger and a broad economic collapse that has created a global Diaspora of the disillusioned.

— jim wyss, miamiherald, "Peru is hotbed for Venezuelan dissidents | Miami Herald," 12 Apr. 2018
His outsider appeal has driven his popularity, especially among disillusioned working-class voters.

— aaron nelsen, San Antonio Express-News, "Front-runner in Mexican presidential race bashes Trump," 5 Apr. 2018
Bruce Willis plays a disillusioned cop willing to look the other way when bad guys get what's coming to them.

— chris ball, cleveland.com, "'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' now on DVD and Blu-ray (review)," 1 Apr. 2018
Loosely inspired by the podcast StartUp and its creator Alex Blumberg's life, and created by Matt Tarses (Scrubs, Sports Night), Alex, Inc. follows a disillusioned radio host and dad who quits his secure job to start a podcasting company.

— kelly lawler, USA TODAY, "Review: Zach Braff's ABC sitcom 'Alex, Inc.' is a podcaster's nightmare," 27 Mar. 2018
The hope of good jobs as salvation is today as promising – and as elusive – as in 1968, when the post-assassination Kerner Report found institutional disparities at work in keeping African-Americans poor, underemployed, and disillusioned.

— patrik jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, "Fifty years after King, Atlantans see a dream still deferred," 4 Apr. 2018
The central portion of the film loops around to spend time with the son, Jonathan (Yonathan Shiray), one of four disaffected, disillusioned Israeli army grunts stationed at a roadside checkpoint in the middle of nowhere.

— ty burr, BostonGlobe.com, "The dance of life plays out in ‘Foxtrot’," 28 Mar. 2018
Emma Roberts plays April, a disillusioned teen struggling to fit in amongst her rebellious and wild peers.

— lauren alexis fisher, Harper's BAZAAR, "Palo Alto's Tribeca Premiere," 25 Apr. 2014

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