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

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

Journalists, media types, and the delusive Edinburgh Comedy festival are complicit in supporting a broken system.

From The Guardian • Jul. 30, 2012

Oh! that he could have been satisfied with our calm joys, which mend the heart, and left those false delusive ones, which corrupt and vitiate it!

From The Sylph, Volume I and II by Cavendish, Georgiana