Example Sentences
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Western experts, blinded by the power of Soviet weapons and the delusory self-confidence of Soviet parades and leaders, dismissed their predictions.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 6, 2015
Of course, neither perception is anything but delusory.
From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2013
All his nightmares of rejection recurred: he suffered fugues of persecution in which delusory daggers and imaginary nooses pursued him.
From Time Magazine Archive
The medieval and the delusory lay all around him in his youth.
From Time Magazine Archive
What began as a dramatically delusory ploy to recapture her father’s attention turned into a sad tarantella of girlish desperation.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
