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delusive

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de·lu·sive  (d-lsv)
adj.
1. Tending to delude.
2. Having the nature of a delusion; false: a delusive faith in a wonder drug.
de·lusive·ly adv.
de·lusive·ness n.
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Adj.1.delusive - inappropriate to reality or facts; "delusive faith in a wonder drug"; "delusive expectations"; "false hopes"
false
unrealistic - not realistic; "unrealistic expectations"; "prices at unrealistic high levels"


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All that was most sugared and musical and generally delusive in the old library of her fathers had been brought out to this little woodland library, and to that nucleus of old leather-bound poets and romancers, long since dead, yet as alive and singing on their shelves as any bird on the sunny boughs outside, my young lady's private purse had added all that was most sugared and musical and generally delusive in the vellum bound Japanese-paper literature of our own luxurious day.
The Quest of the Golden Girl by le Gallienne, Richard View in context
What remedy can there be for this situation, but in a change of the system which has produced it in a change of the fallacious and delusive system of quotas and requisitions?
Federalist Papers Authored by Alexander Hamilton by Hamilton, Alexander View in context
However useful jealousy may be in republics, yet when like bile in the natural, it abounds too much in the body politic, the eyes of both become very liable to be deceived by the delusive appearances which that malady casts on surrounding objects.
Federalist Papers Authored by James Madison by Madison, James View in context
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