delusive
- s inappropriate to reality or facts
delusive faith in a wonder drug
delusive expectations
- Those displays of aberrant behavior that most psychiatrists, even the existentialists, label "delusive," "schizoid" or "paranoid," are, he says, symptomatic of a far more .
- The Democrats said that the Republicans had "practised deception" upon the farmer for more than 50 years "through false and delusive promises" and an unbalanced tariff.
- The just biographer must be proof against the delusive magic of medieval names and picaresque histories.