dangerous delusion

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dangerous
adjective
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/ˈdeɪn.dʒər.əs/us
/ˈdeɪn.dʒɚ.əs/
A dangerous person, animal, thing, or activity could ...
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delusion
noun[C or U]
uk
/dɪˈluː.ʒən/us
/dɪˈluː.ʒən/
belief in something that is ...
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(Definition ofdangerousanddelusionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Surely that is now shown to be adangerousdelusion.
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That has proved to be adangerousdelusion.
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I think that it is adangerousdelusionto ignore this fact.
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I believe that to be a verydangerousdelusion.
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To pretend otherwise is a delusion and adangerousdelusion.
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I think that they cherish a mostdangerousdelusion.
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To pursue the so-called national interest and to have no thought to international interest is to harbour a mostdangerousdelusion.
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I think that is a delusion, and a verydangerousdelusionat that.
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It has fostered thedangerousdelusionthat relations with children can be dissolved; they cannot.
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But it is adangerousdelusionto believe that private investment can be for these countries the main instrument of economic advance.
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It is a delusion—and adangerousdelusion—to think that in some way floating the £ minimises the dangers of inflation.
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The idea of a stable economy pursuing its own national monetary policy in a world of free capital movements is a delusion, adangerousdelusion.
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It is adangerousdelusionto imagine that we can obviate the need for strong defence by swaddling ourselves in the vague, comfortable language of international good will.
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It is a verydangerousdelusionand it is responsible for most of the blunders which have been committed in the industry and for the deplorable conditions now existing.
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There is adangerousdelusionin the minds of many people that the bulge will be followed by a drop which will take us back to the pre-war level.
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That is a verydangerousdelusion.
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There could be no moredangerousdelusion.
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That is adangerousdelusion.
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The idea that we can make our industry more efficient and dynamic and recapture markets by wrapping our firms in the cotton wool of protectionism is adangerousdelusion.
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That is a mostdangerousdelusion.
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