Examples of deluded in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Sondheim and Weidman can try to come up with outlandish scenarios, like a bunch of ghosts urging Oswald to take up his rifle, but reality is always a thousand steps ahead, making up darker and weirder and more deluded stories. — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 15 Nov. 2021 Voter fraud is, of course, the bloody shirt waved by Trump, his enablers and some of the former president’s more deluded followers. — Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2021 Shortly after Roy returned to India, in 1930, in a deluded attempt to influence the independence movement, he was arrested and imprisoned by the British. — Thomas Meaney, The New Yorker, 10 May 2021 But far more deluded critics object to the film for being immoral. — Jack Butler, National Review, 25 Dec. 2020 The state had failed its citizens, advocacy groups had failed the public, and an entire civilization had cosseted itself in a deluded sense of its own rectitude. — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2020 Luck's announcement left fans and observers feeling shock and confusion and, in a handful of deluded cases, anger. — Adam Kilgore, courant.com, 26 Aug. 2019 But this all comes at the end of this addictively chronicled history, in six parts, of a deluded autocrat and his equally imperious czarina, German-born and the granddaughter of Queen Victoria. — Dorothy Rabinowitz, WSJ, 27 June 2019 This is about an abusive male grifter who uses the levers of the law and its many domestic violence–enabling loopholes to wreak havoc on the life of a deluded but innocent woman. — Julia Felsenthal, Vogue, 23 Nov. 2018 See More

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