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adj. - Causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true.

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Usage examples (33)
  • I think he speaks to the darkness of judgement and a delusory sense of superiority.
  • But it is delusory to imagine that one can redeem the materiality of sounds thus produced.
  • In particular, he undermined the West's most potent myth of diabolic amorality and delusory hubris.
  • Indeed, for all I knew, he might be using others of his girls in these same cruel and delusory labors.
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