12 adjectives to describe disillusionment

It was a sad disillusionment for the commissioners, who had expected to be settling the affairs of a fourteenth colony instead of being obliged to leave the city from which they were to have enlightened the people with a free press.

If she had known then of the long years of cruel disillusionment that would drag their weary length along until her efforts were finally crowned with success it is doubtful whether she would have stayed in out of the October sunshine so cheerfully and worked with such enthusiasm.

The history of his life is the history of a series of extravagant admirations for people, followed by no less extravagant disillusionments.

But judging by some of the speeches that followed he too may have a frigid disillusionment when the Bill comes up against the "interests" in Committee.

The hideous disillusionment was nowmonths before the babe.

In their remorse and disgust it was not mere physical disillusionment that so crushed them.

Hence a time of war is the heyday of fallacies and delusions, of misleading hopes and premature disillusionments: men tend to live in an unreal world of phrases and catchwords.

Life soon became intolerable in little Italian cities, and Anna, though astonished at this speedy disillusionment, agreed to return to Russia and to spend the summer on his estate.

This bullet may, indeed, give us a momentary thrill of alarm; but it is dearly bought at the expense of subsequent disillusionment.

For Sofia had not forgotten, she could never forget, she had merely been successful temporarily in banishing from mind that bitter disillusionment which had poisoned what should have been her time of greatest joy.

But since then that mere "matter" which seemed to eclipse the soul has grown strangely radiant to deep-seeing eyes, and, whereas then one had to doubt everything, dupes of superficial disillusionment, now there is no old dream that has not the look of coming true, no hope too wild and strange and beautiful to be confidently entertained.

Cynical disillusionment is all upon the surface the cult of the clique of cleverness, uprooted from the soil of common life and the deeps of the eternal verities.

12 adjectives to describe  disillusionment