Example Sentences

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These are some of the self-deluded weaklings who set the tone of institutional life in much of America today.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 14, 2022

"Baldwin doesn't understand that self-deluded, whining elites crowing their innocence early in the process hurts him severely against a history of film sets where pistols don't fire themselves on a regular occurrence."

From Fox News • Dec. 3, 2021

It’s a play that holds particular significance for him, though Chekhov’s fragile, self-deluded hero — an emblem of romantic frustration — is a role to which he can no longer fully surrender himself.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 29, 2021

“It works. All of it. Always has, always will. Some things are just good. I hate when people are self-deluded, ya know?”

From New York Times • Dec. 9, 2019

When, for example, an imaginative woman says she knows, by mere intuition, that something interesting is going to happen, say the arrival of a favourite friend, she is plainly running the risk of being self-deluded.

From Illusions A Psychological Study by Sully, James