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delusory
adjective as in deceptive
Example Sentences
Broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby said he had always found that part of the last night "uncomfortable", suggesting the "delusory" second line be changed to: "Britons never, never, never shall be knaves".
What began as a dramatically delusory ploy to recapture her father’s attention turned into a sad tarantella of girlish desperation.
He shows the classic signs of what scientists call delusory parasitosis, or Ekbom syndrome, an unwavering but incorrect belief that the patient’s body has been infested with something.
With his calm, delusory delivery, he held them to six hits and the one run over 7 2/3 innings.
The notion that we can start colonizing Mars within the next 10 years or so is an overoptimistic, delusory idea that falls just short of being a joke.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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