Example Sentences

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What troubles him is how un-self-reflective and self-deceptive some atheists are.

From Washington Post • Nov. 16, 2018

He seems to have a sixth sense that helps him detect whatever is shallow, self-flattering and self-deceptive in our notions of ourselves.

From Washington Post • Nov. 16, 2018

That instrument measures “the tendency to engage in self-deceptive enhancement.”

From Science Magazine • Mar. 12, 2015

The very terms and the legal phraseology of the period implied the jousts, tournaments, and ordeal by battle of a romantic and self-deceptive age.

From The Man in Court by Wells, Frederic DeWitt

My misery craving company, I rode with him all the way up in the baggage-car, on the self-deceptive theory that he needed an everpresent friend.

From The Book of Susan A Novel by Dodd, Lee Wilson