delusive

Example Sentences

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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

Yet the British Ministry are amusing the government with their delusive ideas of mediation, armistices, Congresses, peace, and anything to lay them asleep.

From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution (Volume VI) by Various