unillusioned
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of unillusioned
Example Sentences
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Bewilderingly, the protagonists of Solstad’s fictions have coldly identified the life-lie but seem to have resigned themselves to yet more of it—a resignation so unillusioned that it almost resembles rebellion.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 15, 2018
Garner is a natural storyteller: her unillusioned eye makes her clarity compulsive.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 4, 2016
The members weren’t sad, precisely, but they were unillusioned.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2016
Hours pass in this unillusioned crisis, and then blessed sleep finally returns.
From The Guardian • Aug. 26, 2011
Terry watched him with fond but unillusioned eyes, which proves that she really loved him.
From One Basket by Ferber, Edna
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