delusory
Example Sentences
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Western experts, blinded by the power of Soviet weapons and the delusory self-confidence of Soviet parades and leaders, dismissed their predictions.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 6, 2015
Of course, neither perception is anything but delusory.
From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2013
The medieval and the delusory lay all around him in his youth.
From Time Magazine Archive
All his nightmares of rejection recurred: he suffered fugues of persecution in which delusory daggers and imaginary nooses pursued him.
From Time Magazine Archive
What began as a dramatically delusory ploy to recapture her father’s attention turned into a sad tarantella of girlish desperation.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
