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: --
Who is to say what the final social consequences will be on marriages and families which have been founded in the disillusioning and dispiriting framework of almost certain continuous unemployment?
Scientists are disillusioned, not necessarily because of cuts—though that certainly is disillusioning enough—but because when cuts are proposed they are proposed in such a disjointed way.
The clamouring for higher salaries and top positions has been very disillusioning.
Again and again planning applications are overturned on appeal, and that is disillusioning for elected councillors, who are doing their best for local people.
Let us find ways to reduce the number of trials that crack late in the day, disillusioning witnesses and victims.
However, that may be the thought of someone with some sad and disillusioning experience behind him.
We know that what chief executives say is very disillusioning.
It was a deeply disillusioning experience to go there.
