delusive

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

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

But how did Jackson arrive at this extreme point of delusive self-fashioning?

From The Guardian • Apr. 23, 2010

He early embraced the doctrine of immediate and unconditional emancipation, and was among the few members who voted against the delusive scheme of apprenticeship.

From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Stanton, Henry B.