self-deception
noun
the act or fact of deceiving oneself.
self-deceptive
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a word derived from
self-deception.
Example Sentences
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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
What troubles him is how un-self-reflective and self-deceptive some atheists are.
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 Rose E. (Rose Emmet) Young
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 Lee Wilson Dodd
