How to Use delusive in a Sentence

delusive

adjective

• His Willy, a salesman aggressively trapped in a delusive way of thinking, would rather die a martyr than admit to being sold a bill of goods about success.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2020-04-23
• Its apostles see the catastrophic impact of climate change as a historic opportunity to revert to the comforting, delusive tribal vision of racial purity in a world given over to chaos and all but permanent geopolitical turmoil.
  — Emily Atkin, The New Republic, 2019-09-16
• Many less attractive traits are also recorded: Charles could be uncommunicative and dilatory, evasive and mendacious, refractory, vindictive, obstinate, even outright wicked, though self-delusive about the motives of others.
  — R.j.w. Evans, The New York Review of Books, 2020-05-27