illusion
noun
something that deceives by producing a false or misleading impression of reality.
illusioned
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a word derived from
illusion.
Example Sentences
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The wave of dis illusioned Americans broke on a foreign shore that was wholly receptive to their discontent.
From Time Magazine Archive
At that time she was so illusioned with her lonely passion for Pietro Crespi that she laughed at him.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Were he still illusioned, that poem would never have wasted its aesthetic fragrance within such close confines.
From A Williams Anthology A Collection of the Verse and Prose of Williams College, 1798-1910 by Edwin Partridge Lehman
Many a romantic, illusioned, idealistic young country editor, lawyer, or statesman was here made over into a minor cynic or bribe-taker.
From The Titan by Theodore Dreiser
I think nothing else of importance happened during the day, but I was so illusioned with fever that I cannot be sure.
From Ladysmith The Diary of a Siege by Henry W. Nevinson
