delusive
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After all, if the world and the self are illusions, it is delusive to believe that they can be redeemed.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 12, 2018
Supporters of #MeToo have, on occasion, adhered to this idea in a sort of delusive optimism.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 10, 2018
In fact, Martinez says, just as there is a kind of freedom that Martinez wants to defend from delusive ones, there is also a different kind of responsibility that he insists we should accept.
From The Guardian • Dec. 13, 2016
Caretaking, providing comfort, doing your job: The poem celebrates these attributes, more reliable than the larger but delusive objects of “Hope”—that dark and many-tunneled “mine.”
From Slate • Feb. 18, 2015
These ruby lips, and wine, and minstrel boys, And lute, and harp, your dearly cherished toys, Are mere redundancies, and you are naught, Till you renounce the world's delusive joys.
From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Khayyam, Omar
Vocabulary lists containing delusive
"Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" by Patrick Henry (1775)
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Speech to the Virginia Convention
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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