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ADJECTIVE
  1. causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true
    a delusory pleasure
    deceptive calm

How To Use delusory In A Sentence

  • But the settlements prevailed, delusory shortcuts to a palpable proof that the Jewish people were truly blessed by God. The Chosen Peoples
  • Does this imply that narratives' clarifying and consoling effects are delusory?
  • Events in Europe offered Japan a delusory ray of hope.
  • In this way, all unenlightened experience is fabricated by the various aspects of the mind as it generates a false self and projects delusory objects onto reality.
  • James acknowledges that there was something delusory about this ostensibly unified culture.
  • 'Fess up, Mets fans: After these last two delusory seasons, aren't you even a little tempted to walk the wire with Ollie? The One Thing the Mets Don't Need
  • Elements of the administration are clinging to the "delusory" belief that Mr. Mubarak can hold on, said Robert Kagan, a foreign policy analyst at the Brookings Institution who has been a supporter of the president's foreign policy. The White House Hardens Its Tone
  • He poisoned his mother-in-law in the delusory hope of a legacy.
  • I approached situations, circumstances, objects and other people looking to find out if my beliefs were delusory.
  • They were a match made in a spinning, blinders-on Republican heaven, where the faithful still believe that conservative politicians and their pundits, with a little bit of faith and a lot more charm, can transform failures and shortcomings into delusory gold, and rebirth multimillionaires into everyday people who really care about the plights of their Joe Six-Pack and Soccer Mom peers. Jane Devin: Courting the Jester: The Slippery Right's Love Affair With Limbaugh
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