ADJECTIVE
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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
- a delusory pleasure
- In the absence of such an understanding, spirituality will always be construed as extracurricular or a complement to education at best, and a delusory distraction at worst.
- In Buddhist thought, this feeling that we are the real thing, the most important person, the center of everything, is delusory.
- And Ieuan ab Ifor would simply have to resign himself to losing a delusory image of a submissive wife, a creature Heledd could never become. His Disposition
- Events in Europe offered Japan a delusory ray of hope.
- In the misery of his dereliction and afflicted by the devitalizing consquences attendant upon it, he had preferred the indulgences of self-pity and the delusory solaces of paga to the exultant and proud imposition of his will, as a dominant male, on the hearts and bodies of writhing female slaves. Rogue Of Gor
- The Mayan calendar is a gateway to realms of consciousness that the majority of mankind has been blinded to by the use of false delusory calendars.
- Instead it is delusory - its place is located in the imagination.
- These ‘extremes’ of delusory belief appear from experimental evidence to be associated with the existence of microscopic lesions in the right brain.
- The bourgeoisie's delusory fantasy of self-reliance is thus rendered utterly absurd.