delusive

adj 3

Definitions

adj

1

Producing delusions.

2

Delusional.

3

Inappropriate to reality; forming part of a delusion.

The poor thing was finally got off, with several delusive assurances that his absence should be short: that Mr. Edgar and Cathy would visit him, and other promises, equally ill-founded, which I invented and reiterated at intervals throughout the way.

[I]t seemed calculated to suggest ideas she had no intention to suggest: ideas delusive and disturbing.

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