delude
- to mislead the mind or judgment of; deceive: His conceit deluded him into believing he was important.
- Obsolete. to mock or frustrate the hopes or aims of.
- Obsolete. to elude; evade.
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Contemporary Examples of deluded
While obviously not as cartoonish as the deluded leaders in The Office, du Pont seemed to stretch credulity at times.
All but in the fevered dreams of power mad politicians and their deluded followers is a world without immigration possible.
But for Dawkins the “rape is rape is rape” believers are the deluded absolutists.
When news leaked that Beyoncé lip-synced “The Star Spangled Banner,” her “Beyhive” came alive in (deluded) defense of the star.
Justin Bieber, Nicki Minaj, and Lady Gaga’s Fan Armies Rally on TwitterTricia Romano
January 30, 2013
The aggrieved and deluded suggest secession—a question that was definitively settled four score and seven years ago.
Historical Examples of deluded
And what had so enchanted the poor prisoner, so deluded the poor maniac?
Alice, or The Mysteries, CompleteEdward Bulwer-Lytton
Where were those silly hopes with which, at one time, he had deluded himself?
Fair HarborJoseph Crosby Lincoln
Could it be that, after all, Mackintosh had been mistaken, or that Red Fox had deluded them?
The Fiery TotemArgyll Saxby
Each of us knows it all, and knows he knows it all—the rest, to a man, are fools and deluded.
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, CompleteAlbert Bigelow Paine
Do not be deluded with this idea that one party is right and the other wrong.
delude
- to deceive the mind or judgment of; mislead; beguile
- rare to frustrate (hopes, expectations, etc)