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

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.