delusive
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After all, if the world and the self are illusions, it is delusive to believe that they can be redeemed.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 12, 2018
Supporters of #MeToo have, on occasion, adhered to this idea in a sort of delusive optimism.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 10, 2018
In fact, Martinez says, just as there is a kind of freedom that Martinez wants to defend from delusive ones, there is also a different kind of responsibility that he insists we should accept.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 13, 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
This is but a grazing of the ark on Ararat--a delusive omen of the subsiding of the waters.
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield
Vocabulary lists containing delusive
"Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" by Patrick Henry (1775)
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Speech to the Virginia Convention
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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