Definitions
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- adjective freeing from illusion or false belief.
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- verb Present participle of
disillusion .
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- adjective freeing from illusion or false belief
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Examples
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It is kind of disillusioning to realize that even painterly paintings and other works that are considered entirely novel creations often involved analogous 'tracing' techniques rather than realistic forms just springing onto the canvas from a painter's mind's eye.
Archive 2006-08-09 patternjuggler 2006
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It is kind of disillusioning to realize that even painterly paintings and other works that are considered entirely novel creations often involved analogous 'tracing' techniques rather than realistic forms just springing onto the canvas from a painter's mind's eye.
Vector art tracing (via boingboing) patternjuggler 2006
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"disillusioning" to see Republicans who once supported the DREAM Act turn against it in the current climate.
FOXNews.com foxnewsonline@foxnews.com 2010
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The Baghdad Pact, announced in January 1955, had come “as a severe disillusioning surprise” and he perceived it as a strategy “designed to isolate Egypt.”
Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011
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In Cairo, the disillusioning experience of the Menzies delegation was grinding to a halt.
Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011
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It is important for the nation to know that this past year was a very disillusioning one; the wheels came off of Children First Mayor Michael Bloomberg's education initiative.
John C. Fager: New York Matters: Mayoral Control and Denial John C. Fager 2011
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It is important for the nation to know that this past year was a very disillusioning one; the wheels came off of Children First Mayor Michael Bloomberg's education initiative.
John C. Fager: New York Matters: Mayoral Control and Denial John C. Fager 2011
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I realize that this line of thought is, perhaps, too confusing and too disillusioning.
Pavel Somov, Ph.D.: American Am-ness Ph.D. Pavel Somov 2011
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It is important for the nation to know that this past year was a very disillusioning one; the wheels came off of Children First Mayor Michael Bloomberg's education initiative.
John C. Fager: New York Matters: Mayoral Control and Denial John C. Fager 2011
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It is important for the nation to know that this past year was a very disillusioning one; the wheels came off of Children First Mayor Michael Bloomberg's education initiative.
John C. Fager: New York Matters: Mayoral Control and Denial John C. Fager 2011
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