0 present participle of disillusion
1 to disappoint someone by telling them the unpleasant truth about something or someone that they had a good opinion of or respected:
It seems likely that his challenge can only be met by a new generation of ' idealists ', untainted by the disillusioning experiences so acutely analysed here.
More recently, critics have been inclined to see, at the very least, a disillusioning ambivalence about empire.
Lowenthal has argued that the appropriation of the past in this context became "a refuge from the all too new and disillusioning present" created by rapid modernization (xxi).
How disillusioning for our nurses: they were promised so much and, within so little time, badly let down.
I believe that the development of the instruments of biological warfare in this country is part also of this disillusioning process.
Does he accept that one of the things that young people find most disillusioning is being asked for their views, then having them totally disregarded?
Nothing could be more disillusioning than for a young person wishing to vote to find his name not on the roll.
It was a deeply disillusioning experience to go there.
