self-deceptive
- a word derived from self-deception.
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 tortuous, underhand curve of it now and then looked like the self-deceptive work of lunatic cunning.
From Sally of Missouri by Young, Rose E. (Rose Emmet)
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
