Usually means: Misleadingly, often causing false beliefs.
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  1. delusively: Merriam-Webster
  2. delusively: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. delusively: Collins English Dictionary
  4. delusively: Vocabulary.com
  5. delusively: Wordnik
  6. delusively: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. delusively: Wiktionary
  8. delusively: Dictionary.com
  9. delusively: Rhymezone
  10. delusively: FreeDictionary.org
  11. delusively: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. delusively: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. delusively: Legal dictionary

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▸ adverb:  In a delusive or deluded manner.

Similar:
delusionally, deludingly, deceptively, deceivingly, deludedly, deceivably, deceitfully, lyingly, illusively, deviously, more...

Opposite:
realistically, truthfully, factually, honestly

Types:
hallucination, delusion, fantasy, mirage, vision, more...

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Similar:
delusionally, deludingly, deceptively, deceivingly, deludedly, deceivably, deceitfully, lyingly, illusively, deviously, more...

Opposite:
realistically, truthfully, factually, honestly

Types:
hallucination, delusion, fantasy, mirage, vision, more...



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