delusive faith in a wonder drug. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a delusive reply. ,a delusive belief. From Dictionary.com.
Eastern peasants, living in the very thick of every conceivable kind of delusive influence. From Wordnik.com. [The Fair Haven] Reference
O delusive phantom of humanity, how art thou attainable?. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference
But Persano had a delusive hope that he could perhaps score. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference
I say that such a policy as that would be foolish and delusive. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
Accepting the delusive estimate that all the property of the United. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
While thus absorbed, it often seemed that the past had been but a cruelly delusive dream. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
How many delusive snares are laid to entrap and turn aside the youth into divergent paths. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference
We continually cheered them at the pumps with the delusive hopes of its being soon day-light. From Wordnik.com. [Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791] Reference
For how we spent that last night in delusive gladness thou knowest, and must needs remember too well. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
They arrived full of resolution, buoyed often by hopes which they were soon destined to find delusive. From Wordnik.com. [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference
No more do I pray for the old delusive marriage, nor that he give up fair Latium and abandon a kingdom. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
He shrinks from encountering life, with its delusive joys, its pitiless injustice and its arbitrary fate. From Wordnik.com. [The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'] Reference
Is it not, then, a delusive prospect of peace which is offered to us in exchange for the law in question?. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
All other steps are futile, can only be mischievous and delusive, and terminate in disappointment and defeat. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference
That any one will be turned aside from so noble a mission by the delusive dream of conquest and empire in the. From Wordnik.com. [Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party] Reference
The result of these circumstances was the delusive treaty of Pinerolo, agreed to in the month of August, 1655. From Wordnik.com. [The Vaudois of Piedmont A Visit to their Valleys] Reference
All the infernal apparatus of later ages was easy to be supplied by a delusive and an unreasoning imagination. From Wordnik.com. [The Superstitions of Witchcraft] Reference
We may have money, and pleasure, and success, and fame, but they are all delusive husks if the grace of the Lord be absent. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
I had been lounging in the inn garden during a delusive sunset gleam of bright weather, and admiring its noble proportions. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools] Reference
The English have conceded self-government to many of their colonies, and not of the frail delusive sort that Spain granted to Cuba. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
Such an anticipation was not to be thought delusive, because the opposition made to the Society at its commencement still continued. From Wordnik.com. [The Trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D. Charged with Publishing and Circulating Seditious and Incendiary Papers, &c. in the District of Columbia, with the Intent of Exciting Servile Insurrection. Carefully Reported, and Compiled from the Written Statements of the Court and the Counsel.] Reference
To those great convulsions, which are occasioned by the clashing of important rights, succeeded the delusive tranquillity of servitude. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference
We find it difficult even to think of striving for what is eternal, all-holy, and perfect, so unreal, so delusive do such thoughts seem. From Wordnik.com. [Education and the Higher Life] Reference
Was it one of those delusive sounds which the anxious mind sometimes conjures up, or did an answer really come to the lad's cry for help?. From Wordnik.com. [The Wizard of the Sea A Trip Under the Ocean] Reference
The discovery that the codes by which we have lived are misleading and delusive may lead us to have nothing whatsoever to do with morals. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
Letters from Lord John Drummond had re-assured him of the good will of the Court of France -- that delusive hope was not even then extinct. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference
To this Juturna adds a yet stronger impulse, and high in heaven shews a sign more potent than any to confuse Italian souls with delusive augury. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
This delusive palliation is more particularly one of the effects of corrosive sublimate in Dysentery; and is exceedingly dangerous in this disease. From Wordnik.com. [Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent] Reference
Maryland had made profound sensation and had dissipated the delusive hopes -- indulged there as well as in Montgomery -- like mists before the sun. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
So they regard with contempt the pigmy world, wrap the mantles of their mortified pride about them, and lie down in a delusive dream of immortality. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
So accustomed had she become to her sad situation, that it seemed like a delusive dream when she remembered the sportive hours of her earlier childhood. From Wordnik.com. [Live to be Useful or, The Story of Annie Lee and her Irish Nurse] Reference
Both were resorted to in the delusive hope that they would restore public credit and afford relief to the Government and to the business of the country. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
He still hoped that he would be able to return home, and inquired in regard to mutual friends, but his hope was delusive and he died on November 24, 1889. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
Like them, it is true, he turned his back on the delusive splendours of the world; he accepted and expressed in song the divine ordinance of the universe. From Wordnik.com. [Personality in Literature] Reference
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