deluded; deluding
1
: to mislead the mind or judgment of : deceive, trick
… people he regards as deluded by the romantic idea that children somehow possess innate knowledge …—
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Andrew Delbanco… Hamilton apparently deluded himself, as the first Treasury secretary, into thinking his policies patriotic when their effect, Mr. Phillips says, was to put money into silken purses.—Michael Knox Beran
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deluder
noun
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we deluded ourselves into thinking that the ice cream wouldn't affect our diet
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Allison Janney, in this role, is by turns warm, prickly, deluded, and officious.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 11 June 2025
Bernal as a despotic and at times deluded Magellan persuades the Spanish Crown to fund his bold 16th century expedition to the fabled lands of the East, only to unleash a decade of devastation wreaked by European conquistadors in the Pacific as part of colonial conquests.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 3 June 2025
Image The tragedy for America — and for the world — is not that the Democratic Party was deluded about what was at stake in the 2024 race.
—Fintan O’Toole, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
The foreign policy establishment in the Western nations is in its own way just as deluded as Putin or Trump or Netanyahu in their over-reliance on the unworkable paradigm of deterrence by force of arms, especially weapons of mass-murder.
—Winslow Myers, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
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Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 11 June 2025
Bernal as a despotic and at times deluded Magellan persuades the Spanish Crown to fund his bold 16th century expedition to the fabled lands of the East, only to unleash a decade of devastation wreaked by European conquistadors in the Pacific as part of colonial conquests.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 3 June 2025
Image The tragedy for America — and for the world — is not that the Democratic Party was deluded about what was at stake in the 2024 race.
—Fintan O’Toole, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
The foreign policy establishment in the Western nations is in its own way just as deluded as Putin or Trump or Netanyahu in their over-reliance on the unworkable paradigm of deterrence by force of arms, especially weapons of mass-murder.
—Winslow Myers, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for delude
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“Delude.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/delude. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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