self-delusion
noun
the act or fact of deluding oneself.
self-deluding
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a word derived from
self-delusion.
Example Sentences
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His philosophical orientation made him especially receptive to the avant-garde, but he admired professionalism, discipline and skill above all and had little patience for the self-deluding rhetoric and empty political gestures of theatrical cults.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2023
In a career spanning six decades, Beatty marshaled his booming voice, roly-poly physique, beady eyes and Cheshire-cat grin into an impressive range of characters: amiable, self-deluding, menacing, terrified, or a nuanced combination of the four.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 13, 2021
Luke Wilson plays his feckless, self-deluding father, who reappears to take him off to a strange new life in Las Vegas.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 5, 2019
It’s their self-protecting, self-deluding rationalizations that conjure the devils of distrust that rip a social fabric to shreds.
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2016
The Germany of to-day hides, under the self-deluding appearance of a confinement to purely esthetic problems, a predominating and lively joy in the growth of the Fatherland, and naturally also in its mental broadening.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. by Kuno Francke
