20 August 2017
delusive
[dih-loo-siv]
adjective
1. tending to delude; misleading; deceptive:
a delusive reply.
2. of the nature of a delusion; false; unreal:
a delusive belief.
Also, delusory [dih-loo-suh-ree]
Origin of delusive
1595-1605 First recorded in 1595-1605; delus(ion) + -ive
Related forms
delusively, adverb
delusiveness, noun
nondelusive, adjective
undelusive, adjective
undelusively, adverb
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Examples from the Web for delusive
Contemporary Examples
It would be delusory to take the MB’s democratic protestations at face value.
Beware Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood
Leslie H. Gelb
January 28, 2011
Historical Examples
Such are often given over to woeful hard-heartedness or despair; for God will not be mocked with delusory words.
A Christian Directory (Volume 1 of 4)
Richard Baxter
Anagram
us veiled
Sue lived
Today’s quote
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
– Blaise Pascal
On this day
20 August 1866 – American Civil War formally ends.
20 August 1940 – British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, states ‘never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few‘, in relation to the Royal Air Force who was repelling German attacks on the United Kingdom in the Battle of Britain.
20 August 1948 – birth of Robert Plant, British rock singer, musician and songwriter. During the 1960’s, Plant sang with a number of bands, including The Crawling King Snakes, Listen, Band of Joy and Hobbstweedle. In 1968, Jimmy Page of successful blues band, The Yardbirds (which had previously featured Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck), convinced Plant to front his new band, The New Yardbirds. Page and Plant began writing songs for the new band, as well as playing some of the Yardbirds classics, such as Dazed and Confused, and For Your Love. Towards the end of 1968, the band was renamed Led Zeppelin. Musicologist Robert Walser stated, ‘Led Zeppelin’s sound was marked by speed and power, unusual rhythmic patterns, contrasting terraced dynamics, singer Robert Plant’s wailing vocals, and guitarist Jimmy Page’s heavily distorted crunch‘. Led Zeppelin has been widely regarded as the forerunner of Heavy Metal.
20 August 1966 – birth of Dimebag Darrell, (born Darrell Lance Abbott), American musician, founding member of Pantera. Dimebag was shot dead on stage on 8 December 2004 while playing for Damageplan.
20 August 1968 – the USSR and a number of other Warsaw Pact nations, invade Czechoslovakia to halt the ‘Prague Spring’ liberalisation reforms being implemented by the Czech leader, Alexander Dubček. This invasion caused a significant rift in support by Communists across the globe and condemnation by many non-Communist nations, leading to a weakening of communism in general and the Soviet Union in particular.