delusive (adj.)
- aberrant
- abroad
- adrift
- airy
- amiss
- apparent
- apparitional
- askew
- autistic
- awry
- beguiling
- catchy
- chimeric
- chimerical
- corrupt
- deceiving
- deceptive
- defective
- delusional
- delusory
- deviant
- distorted
- dreamlike
- dreamy
- dubious
- errant
- erring
- erroneous
- fallacious
- false
- fanciful
- fantastic
- faulty
- fishy
- flawed
- hallucinatory
- heretical
- heterodox
- illogical
- illusional
- illusionary
- illusive
- illusory
- imaginary
- misleading
- off
- ostensible
- out
- peccant
- perverse
- perverted
- phantasmagoric
- phantasmal
- phantom
- questionable
- quixotic
- seeming
- self-contradictory
- specious
- spectral
- straying
- supposititious
- tricksy
- tricky
- unfounded
- unorthodox
- unproved
- unreal
- unsubstantial
- untrue
- visionary
- wide
- wrong
Hope tells a flattering tale,
Delusive, vain, and hollow.
Ah! let not hope prevail,
Lest disappointment follow.
