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
Journalists, media types, and the delusive Edinburgh Comedy festival are complicit in supporting a broken system.
From The Guardian • Jul. 30, 2012
They had inscribed on my reason the conviction that unlawful pleasure, trenching on another's rights, is delusive and envenomed pleasure—its hollowness disappoints at the time, its poison cruelly tortures afterwards, its effects deprave for ever.'
From The Bront? Family, Vol. 2 of 2 with special reference to Patrick Branwell Bront? by Leyland, Francis A.
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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