self-delusion
noun
the act or fact of deluding oneself.
self-deluded
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a word derived from
self-delusion.
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
The report also said leaders were "self-deluded" in thinking they had addressed problems before they became public.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2018
Nothing is more common than uninformed, misinformed, mistaken, or self-deluded honesty.
From The Principles Of Secularism by George Jacob Holyoake
