Crossword-Solution: DELUSIVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Delusive | a. | Apt or fitted to delude; tending to mislead the mind; deceptive; beguiling; delusory; as, delusive arts; a delusive dream. |
We have 70 clues for the answer “DELUSIVE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| inappropriate to reality or facts | 1 answer |
| With a false nature | 1 answer |
| delusory | 2 answers |
| meretricious | 11 answers |
| Deceiving | 27 answers |
| Fallacious | 34 answers |
| chimerical | 49 answers |
| spurious | 51 answers |
| Counter-feit | 55 answers |
| offhandedly | 55 answers |
| Illusory | 59 answers |
| unprepared | 62 answers |
| ARTIFICIAL ___ | 65 answers |
| nonessential | 67 answers |
| mutable | 68 answers |
| unsecured | 68 answers |
| traipsing | 68 answers |
| protean | 68 answers |
| dubitable | 68 answers |
| rootless | 69 answers |
| sleepless | 69 answers |
| dispensable | 69 answers |
| without aim | 70 answers |
| adventitious | 70 answers |
| alterable | 70 answers |
| uncreative | 70 answers |
| unintentional | 70 answers |
| changeful | 71 answers |
| mystified | 71 answers |
| inconclusive | 71 answers |
| transient | 72 answers |
| Ambivalent? | 72 answers |
| ALTERNATING ___ | 72 answers |
| On the move | 72 answers |
| purposeless | 72 answers |
| unquiet | 72 answers |
| involuntarily | 72 answers |
| Subsidiary | 72 answers |
| nugatory | 73 answers |
| Resilient | 73 answers |
| expendable | 73 answers |
| Random | 73 answers |
| Preoccupied | 74 answers |
| Unemployed | 74 answers |
| Fatuous | 75 answers |
| Missed | 75 answers |
| accidentally | 75 answers |
| Unattached | 77 answers |
| Unconvincing | 77 answers |
| Uneasy | 77 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETEAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DELUSIVE (5)
Hope elevates, and joy Bright’ns his Crest, as when a wandring Fire Compact of unctuous vapor, which the Night Condenses, and the cold invirons round, Kindl’d through agitation to a Flame, Which oft, they say, some evil Spirit attends, Hovering and blazing with delusive Light, Misleads th’ amaz’d Night-wanderer from his way To Boggs and Mires, & oft through Pond or Poole, There swallow’d up and lost, from succour farr.
Beholding it, Hester was constrained to rush towards the child—to pursue the little elf in the flight which she invariably began—to snatch her to her bosom with a close pressure and earnest kisses—not so much from overflowing love as to assure herself that Pearl was flesh and blood, and not utterly delusive.
The lane opened slantingly into the main road with a narrow opening, and had a delusive appearance of coming from the direction of London.
This she did in the most affecting, artless manner, entreating their pardon and blessing, and describing the dreadful situation of her mind, the conflict she suffered in endeavouring to conquer this unfortunate attachment, and concluded with saying, her only hope of future comfort consisted in the (perhaps delusive) idea she indulged, of being once more folded in their protecting arms, and hearing the words of peace and pardon from their lips.
Auld could pray—I would fain pray; but doubts (arising partly from my own neglect of the means of grace, and partly from the sham religion which everywhere prevailed, cast in my mind a doubt upon all religion, and led me to the conviction that prayers were unavailing and delusive) prevented my embracing the opportunity, as a religious one.
Quotes with DELUSIVE (3)
When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.
In the physical constitution of an organized being, that is, a being adapted suitably to the purposes of life, we assume it as a fundamental principle that no organ for any purpose will be found but what is also the fittest and best adapted for that purpose. Now in a being which has reason and a will, if the proper object of nature were its conservation, its welfare, in a word, its happiness, then nature would have hit upon a very bad arrangement in selecting the reason of th…
Before, I suspected I might not amount to anything, and now I now I won't, so at least it takes away the wearisome burden of delusive hope