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delusive

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1. delusive - Adjective

2. delusive - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Apt or fitted to delude; tending to mislead the mind; deceptive; beguiling; delusory; as, delusive arts; a delusive dream.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part. George Bernard Shaw

Unlawful pleasure, trenching on another's rights, is delusive and envenomed pleasure-its hollowness disappoints at the time, its poison cruelly tortures afterwards, its effects deprave forever. Charlotte Brontë

It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most "familiarity" is meditated and delusive. David Foster Wallace

O sweet, delusive Noon, Which the morning climbs to find, O moment sped too soon, And morning left behind. Helen Hunt Jackson

Thought and reason, unless matched by feelings, are empty, delusive things. Robertson Davies

There is a true and a false science, a Divine and an Infernal Magic – in other words, one which is delusive and tenebrous. Eliphas Levi

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