illusory , also: illusive

The price we pay for this illusory increase is too high.

In other words, a real peace, not an illusory one.

For them, access to information, whether about themselves or their children, will remain an illusory right.

But the ease of the last seven weeks may be illusory.

This is no time to desert for some illusory future.

That also gave her a feeling of freedom, and one rather less illusory than the other.

It was illusory, at best, but what else did he have in terms of options?

He looked away from her for a moment, at the illusory fire in the fireplace.

A promise may be illusory for a number of reasons.

The future of success is not that the price we pay will prove illusory.

On Tuesday, our sense of security was shown to be illusory.

He wanted to score in the game, not with an illusory female.

The water surrounding him seemed illusory, though he knew it was not.

The threat of moving is not always illusory, though, and some companies will move, for business reasons, no matter what.

She would rather stay at home and avoid the rest of the world, leaving it illusory.

But the profits turned out to be illusory, according to many former employees.

"It is illusory to think we can do anything about the situation" between the Government and the rebels, he said.

The flight of nuclear energy from the Union will show our efforts to be illusory.

Freedom is illusory; we are all prisoners of our need to work for a living.

But the quest for other forms of justice is illusory.

Those ties are already illusory; and the second generation will not feel them at all.

He was saying that war has shown many of our liberties to be illusory.

That sense of openness is mostly illusory in my life now.

Perhaps here and there, but the change seems glacial, if not illusory.

Its shelter, however illusory, had been a comfort to her and to the others.