delusive

Examples

• France, by the perfidy of her leaders, has utterly disgraced the tone of lenient counsel in the cabinets of princes, and has taught kings to tremble at what will hereafter be called the delusive plausibilities of moral politicians.

  The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics

• Cook called the delusive point Cape Flattery and added: "It is in this very latitude (48 degrees 15 minutes) that geographers have placed the pretended Straits of Juan de Fuca; but we saw nothing like it; nor is there the least possibility that any such thing ever existed."

  Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward

• The alternative will be called delusive, for, in European literature at least, there is no word-symbol that does not imply a spoken sound, and no excellence without euphony.

  Style

• Therefore the learning of many languages is injudicious, inasmuch as it arouses the belief in the possession of dexterity, and, as a matter of fact, it lends a kind of delusive importance to social intercourse.

  Esperanto: Hearings before the Committee on Education

• There's something deeper, more repugnant; a quality so malignant that people literally waste years of their precious lives in its delusive grasp: Self-Importance.

  Graham Elliot Bowles GOES OFF On Chicago Magazine After Lollapalooza Food Criticism

• The lane opened slantingly into the main road with a narrow opening, and had a delusive appearance of coming from the direction of London.

  The War of The Worlds

• I know little apology for troubling you with these things, excepting the desire to commemorate a delightful evening, and a wish to encourage you to shake off that modest diffidence which makes you afraid of being supposed connected with the fairy-land of delusive fiction.

  The Monastery

• I could not find that it led to anything but the formation of delusive hopes in connexion with the suit already the pernicious cause of so much sorrow and ruin.

  Bleak House