as in deceived
to cause to believe what is untrue
we deluded ourselves into thinking that the ice cream wouldn't affect our diet
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Recent Examples of deluded
Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 5 July 2025
Delusion is the stuff of tragedy, and what ravaged beauty Crews’s books possess comes from their deluded sense of hope.
—Charlie Lee, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025
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Verb
These are monumental achievements, inconceivable in the past, that will allow the state to navigate the swings and roundabouts a deluded Congress imposes on us.
—Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 5 July 2025
Delusion is the stuff of tragedy, and what ravaged beauty Crews’s books possess comes from their deluded sense of hope.
—Charlie Lee, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
Adjective
One source of support she’s found is the Human Line Project, an AI safety group that collects data on people who have been deluded or emotionally affected by chatbots.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for deluded
Verb
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According to Chinese sources, one of its electronic warfare (EW) systems has successfully deceived a foreign spy plane over the South China Sea.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Oct. 2025
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While vacationing in Switzerland during Zurich Fashion Week, they were interviewed and completely deceived the interviewer throughout the conversation.—
Mya Abraham,
VIBE.com,
9 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Engineers outfitted the device with a heater to melt ice in the winter, a customization that should improve accuracy during Arizona’s freeze-thaw cycles that have long created erroneous measurements.—
Hayleigh Evans,
AZCentral.com,
2 Oct. 2025
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Vedra and other debt law experts said a high rate of default judgments indicates a system that favors the pursuers over the pursued — and increases the chances someone will be harmed by an erroneous bill.—
Rae Ellen Bichell,
Fortune,
29 Sep. 2025
Verb
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And though in public, the royal family remains upbeat, people who have been following the monarchy for a while aren’t fooled.—
Lizzie Lanuza,
StyleCaster,
13 Oct. 2025
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Viewer Reactions The TikTok video reached over 874,100 views, 171,200 likes and 657 comments as of Monday, with people cracking up in the comment section, claiming they too had been fooled for a moment.—
Liz O'Connell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Advertisement Despite the effort, the hijackers realized that they had been tricked.—
Kayti Burt,
Time,
17 Oct. 2025
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Another older model that’s still available on ChatGPT and is still preferred by some users, o4-mini, was tricked even more frequently, 93% of the time.—
Jasmine Cui,
NBC news,
10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The Big 12 did not clarify which part of Leipold's statement was inaccurate.—
Ryan Morik,
FOXNews.com,
15 Oct. 2025
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But Johnson and other GOP leaders have repeatedly said Democrats want to extend Affordable Care Act and Medicaid benefits to countless undocumented immigrants, which is inaccurate.—
Zachary Schermele,
USA Today,
9 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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These claims are not only untrue — they are being weaponized to damage my reputation and distract from the truth.—
Christina Dugan Ramirez , Tracy Wright,
FOXNews.com,
10 Oct. 2025
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The campaign slammed her words and accusations as inappropriate and untrue.—
Washington Examiner Staff,
The Washington Examiner,
10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Instead of expanding nursing slots, the state board has limited the number of nursing slots for private colleges out of a misguided sense of fairness.—
The Editorial Board,
Oc Register,
12 Oct. 2025
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After all, even repeating the consensus of the time is far from a surefire way of looking clever in 25 years, because various elements of the sport where there was a broad agreement about the direction of travel have proved misguided.—
Michael Cox,
New York Times,
11 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Officers were apparently confused.—
Aida Alami,
New Yorker,
17 Oct. 2025
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One of the artists looked at me a little confused.—
Mankaprr Conteh,
Rolling Stone,
16 Oct. 2025
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“Deluded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deluded. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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