The word "delusory" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe something that is misleading or based on illusion. Example: "His hopes for a promotion were delusory, as the company was downsizing." Alternatives include "illusory" or "deceptive."
Hindenburg and Ludendorff, who now exercised a sort of military semidictatorship, also brought about the dismissal of Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg in the delusory hope that "a strong man" could be found to assume the leadership of the Reich.
Perhaps such hopes were always delusory: the army was never going to cede power back to Muslim Brotherhood leaders whom it had just put in jail, and those leaders were not going to legitimise a military coup against a legally elected government.
These fetters comprise ignorance, karma, and the delusory nature of phenomenal reality (maya).
Ensconced on his transcendental throne, he is unruffled by the delusory problems we bipeds create for ourselves.
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He can tell the younger writer Bernard von Brentano that the experience of love is delusory, evaporating after sex, "just as pink elephants go away when you have a drink", only to fall in love himself and insist that love alone can enable him to feel alive.
(That's completely delusory on my part. She totally demolished me).
What is for some period a disturbing thriller turns into a waking nightmare for us and Nash when the illusory or delusory nature of his life is exposed.
Although the true character of the world in question differs radically from our own, it is, from the point of view of its inhabitants, utterly indistinguishable, for the Demon takes care to ensure that the courses of experiences that the inhabitants undergo are qualitatively identical to the courses of experiences that they undergo in our non-delusory world.
Although sympathetic with students' demand for more democratic participation and hopeful that their activism harbored a potential for positive social transformation, he also did not hesitate to criticize its militant aspects, which he labeled self-delusory and "pernicious" (1970, 48).
Zen believes that it ultimately carries no existential meaning for emancipating a human being from his or her predicaments, for it maintains that discriminatory knowledge of any kind is delusory/illusory in nature.
