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illusory
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
illusory
il‧lu‧so‧ry
/
ɪˈluːs
ə
ri
/
(
also
illusive
/
ɪˈluːsɪv
/
)
adjective
formal
UNTRUE
false
but
seeming
to be real or true
First impressions can often prove illusory.
Examples from the Corpus
illusory
•
Signs of economic
recovery
may be
illusory
.
•
For
feminists
, therefore, the
comfort
they give is
illusory
.
•
And like those
concepts
, its
benefits
are
illusory
and
potential
consequences
alarming
.
•
Escape
proves
illusory
, as we must know it will.
•
His universalism seemed to offer
unending
real
misery
punctuated
by periods of
illusory
bliss
.
•
This leads me to question the completely
illusory
quality of such
identifications
.
•
The
Ego
is the
limited
,
separated
,
illusory
self
which can not see
beyond
the end of its own
nose
.
•
Whatever we do, we must
avoid
the
illusory
solution
of
disengaging
from the world by
abandoning
peace
operations
.
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