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

Begin, Descartes wrote, by doubting absolutely everything you know, think, and perceive; assume that it is all delusive, as in a dream.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 29, 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

But how did Jackson arrive at this extreme point of delusive self-fashioning?

From The Guardian • Apr. 23, 2010

Before his imagination there floated the dream of what he might have been, and his mind alternated between passionate remonstrances against his unfortunate circumstances and delusive hopes and anticipations.

From Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight by Willcock, John