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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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
So the word "religious" had something in it repellent, sickly, and self-deceptive….
From Together by Robert Herrick
And Mrs. Vrater laughed with so fair a show of airy enjoyment that the Dean plunged his head into a newspaper, and wished he possessed the self-deceptive powers of the ostrich.
From For the Cause by Stanley J. Weyman
