delusive

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Supporters of #MeToo have, on occasion, adhered to this idea in a sort of delusive optimism.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 10, 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

Condemned to Hope’s delusive mine,     As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blasts, or slow decline,     Our social comforts drop away.

From Slate • Feb. 18, 2015

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

From The Guardian • Apr. 23, 2010

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