illusory
IPA: ɪɫˈusɝi
adjective
- Resulting from an illusion; deceptive, imaginary, unreal.
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Examples of "illusory" in Sentences
- As I recall, we could hear him smacking his lips in illusory ecstasy, even from the back seat.
- "At the end of the day, there is a short-term illusory benefit from having fewer shares in issue."
- If we give up some short-term illusory growth as a side effect of curtailing their activities, this is a small price to pay.
- Trevelyan masterfully depicts Marlborough's campaigns, but in illusory power it is doubtful that Churchill's historic battle scenes can be surpassed.
- Instead of entering into an intermediate state, the yogi rises from the death state in what we call an illusory body, in place of the intermediate state.
- And the SEC says Dell consistently misrepresented how it has generated consistent growth numbers resulting in illusory stock values that made possible Michael Dell's astronomical stock option gains.
- Another word in Professor Daly's lexicon is "foreground," which she defines as the illusory reality established over the centuries within a male-dominated, hierarchical culture bent on destroying women, animals and the earth.
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