disenchantment
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Agitation, on the other hand—the sort of I-told-ya-so infighting, finger-pointing, and disenchantment which followed Sunday’s rude playoff dismissal by San Francisco?
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 12, 2026
"Extremism, radicalism and populism feed off this lack of trust, disinformation, inequalities, disenchantment with the present and doubts about how to face the future."
From Barron's • Dec. 24, 2025
Other evidence from the travel industry is beginning to back up the idea of a growing disenchantment with the United States.
From BBC • Apr. 12, 2025
The two bonded over their disenchantment with the siloed world of academia and their belief that philosophy can be helpful to more people, if only they studied it.
From New York Times • Jun. 13, 2024
The idea of modern science also raises, however, a set of further questions which are tied together in Weber’s phrase ‘the disenchantment of the world’.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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