delusive
He delusively sees himself as the next President.
The party remains delusively committed to pretending they matter more than they do.
She delusively imagines that her virtue cannot fail to secure her a place in heaven.
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anomalous
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invalidly
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Examples of delusively
delusively
Usually a need or desire for something results in one's trying to achieve it rather than
delusively concluding that it has already been achieved.
But under a purely democratic organisation so
delusively simple a method of elimination would be by no means practicable.
At the same time the country was
delusively prosperous.
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