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
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
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
Pontiac himself clung fast to this delusive hope; yet he was greatly vexed at the safe arrival of the vessel, and the assistance she had brought to the obstinate defenders of Detroit.
From The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Parkman, Francis
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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