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Recent Examples of delusional
It has been mentioned in this space that expecting a young quarterback to lead a team there is nigh on delusional, and odd for a team that for the past two years has made a ton of good free-agent moves.
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John Shipley, Twin Cities, 22 Sep. 2025
But critics warned the cost estimates were far too low, construction deadlines were more delusional than optimistic, and that promised multibillion-dollar investments by private firms would never emerge because state law barred investors from public subsidies if train operations lost money.
—U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2025
For some of us long-suffering fans, football inspires less Messianic zeal than an annual reminder that this is a dark and cruel world and any delusional preseason hope will be quickly and thoroughly snuffed out.
—Jake Coyle, Boston Herald, 19 Sep. 2025
Ibsen here paints one of his most beautiful (and strange) portraits of a delusional but deeply loving household.
—Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2025
This is absolutely delusional and nauseating.
—Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
An expert called by Bixby's lawyers said the isolation of prison has only made his beliefs more delusional and that Bixby is stuck in his mindset.
—Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Madharaasi is a psychological action thriller film about an operation against a gun-syndicate and the encounter with a delusional patient.
—Sweta Kaushal, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
D’Annunzio jeers at her delusional belief that Il Duce will fund her dream project of a theater not for the wealthy cultural and intellectual elite, but for the Great War’s widows, orphans and veterans.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for delusional
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Everyone has their own analogy to describe Labour’s illusory power.—
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Any thought of stability is illusory; no patch of molecules dances in isolation.—
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Tipping takes the notion of a spiral in football and runs with it, creating some of the film’s most hallucinatory effects in the process.—
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Campaigns can be hallucinatory affairs, and this one was full of bizarre moments.—
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Bob and Zoyd are both paranoid in the wake of their rebellious pasts.—
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For a long stretch of its opening act, All the President’s Men—the canonical paranoid thriller from 1976—isn’t just about the brewing Watergate scandal, or about the battle between a cagey political machine and an enterprising newspaper.—
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This isn’t callousness or delusive optimism but, rather, a rebellion against the suffocating expectation that the elderly have foreclosed the possibility of joy.—
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To separate art from its historical framework is futile, and to reject it in an effort to censor past violence is a delusive act of virtue signaling.—
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Clayton, a bipolar, suicidal man, voluntarily checks into a mental hospital and falls in love with a schizophrenic patient, Anna (Jade Jordan).—
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According to court and police record, police were conducting a welfare check on Brown, where he was diagnosed as schizophrenic.—
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People can deliberately cultivate more conscientiousness, boost their sociability or soften their neurotic edges.—
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The actor who lets loose the most on The Studio is Kravitz, who sheds her cool-girl persona for something much more neurotic and career-minded.—
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Consciousness, human life, utterly in the grip of its own dreamlife, all our thinking and voicing caught in a web of surreal distortion, generated by our irrational yearning and apprehensions, our appetite for myth, our solipsism.—
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In cathedral-worthy glory, the work rose six meters, depicting a surreal celestial sky with 12 levitating apples.—
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The idea of a schizoid Lady M is not entirely without appeal, but despite strong performances across the board, the work runs aground fast.—
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The entire movie, of course, was a goof, a schizoid cardboard Vaudeville horror burlesque shot in two days and a night by Roger Corman.—
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“Delusional.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/delusional. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.
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