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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.
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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.
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His outsider appeal has driven his popularity, especially among disillusioned working-class voters.
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Bruce Willis plays a disillusioned cop willing to look the other way when bad guys get what's coming to them.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Emma Roberts plays April, a disillusioned teen struggling to fit in amongst her rebellious and wild peers.
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First Known Use of disillusioned
1871
DISILLUSIONED Defined for English Language Learners
disillusioned
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: having lost faith or trust in something : disappointed that something is not as good, valuable, true, etc., as it had seemed
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