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delusive::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | false |
| Derivation | delude |
delusive faith in a wonder drug.
delusive expectations.
Examples of delusive
delusive
What location combines delusive safety and elusive danger more potently than a hospital at night?
From the guardian.co.uk
The expectations game was at least as delusive among the women.
From the time.com
The driven, half-poetic half-delusive doctor has become a worldwide legend in the past three years.
From the time.com
The pale north light itself is delusive, lingering in the weeks before and after the solstice till midnight and more.
From the time.com
The America's Cup brings out all the low dodges, delusive hopes and suspensions of common sense so essential to refined underdoggery.
From the time.com
For humans to presume that they are more than a gnat on an elephant's rump in terms of impact on climate change is vain and delusive.
From the forbes.com
We have a well-trodden, fail-safe, awakened way to live on joy with all always, rather than a delusive way to live in the slavery of all always.
From the stltoday.com
Laing, who has followed this approach many times in his London practice, tried it early in his career on a delusive young private when Laing was a medical officer in the British army.
From the time.com
Mr. Klein's constant impugning of Jews as traitors earned him a rebuke from the Anti-Defamation League, which only strengthened his delusive sense of victimhood.
From the washingtontimes.com
- Inappropriate to reality or facts; "delusive faith in a wonder drug"; "delusive expectations"; "false hopes"
- (delusively) in a deceptive and unrealistic manner; "the village looked delusively near"
- Producing delusions; Delusional
