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
Roger Bennett,
Fortune,
2 Mar. 2026
O’Hara relished playing deluded snobs like this wealthy Manhattanite with artistic ambitions from director Tim Burton’s horror comedy about two dead owners of a country house who want to drive out its new buyers.
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Julie Hinds,
Freep.com,
30 Jan. 2026
Erin Moriarty,
CBS News,
8 Mar. 2026
Atheists wrote that my father deluded himself.
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Literary Hub,
15 Dec. 2025
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Adjective
Jürgen’s appeared as wildly deluded as my own.
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Roger Bennett,
Fortune,
2 Mar. 2026
O’Hara relished playing deluded snobs like this wealthy Manhattanite with artistic ambitions from director Tim Burton’s horror comedy about two dead owners of a country house who want to drive out its new buyers.
—
Julie Hinds,
Freep.com,
30 Jan. 2026
Verb
Instead, Weinstein told the jury, Nick Kassotis had been duped and deluded by the mysterious figure Jim McIntyre.
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Erin Moriarty,
CBS News,
8 Mar. 2026
Atheists wrote that my father deluded himself.
—
Literary Hub,
15 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for deluded
Adjective
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Although Rodman’s research shows that generative AI can help diagnose rare diseases or make sense of unusual symptoms, a randomized trial that was published in NEJM AI just the week before found that intentionally erroneous output from an AI model can easily lead doctors astray.
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The good news is, though, that while an erroneous freeze can cause big trouble with your bills, it can usually be reversed.
Verb
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Some people in Israel say Netanyahu, in a way, deceived Trump.
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One is to emphasize Iago—the guileful, insinuating convincingness of this malicious supervillain, who works on Othello to the point where any reasonable man would be deceived and fooled and worked into a rage that can lead to such a catastrophe.
Adjective
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This commonly results from inaccurate color representation, poor fit or discrepancies between the physical item and its depiction on the website.
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Choi said McGee would use terminology that could have swayed a jury and sometimes provided an inaccurate window for a time of death.
Verb
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Don’t be fooled; this isn’t your typical museum.
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Don’t be fooled by its breezy ’60s-analog vintage pop sound.
Adjective
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But several of the observations were simply untrue.
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Though there were initial reports that Mansfield was decapitated in the accident, her undertaker, Jim Roberts, later revealed that that was untrue.
Verb
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While the war ended years before, the hostility spread from the stands — with skirmishes among supporters — into the field, when Maradona tricked the referee and the world with the World Cup’s most infamous goal, punching the ball into the net with his fist above England’s goalie Peter Shilton.
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The sample that tricked the most people came from a robot Bram Stoker.
Adjective
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She’s portrayed as misguided and misunderstood, not evil.
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The impacts of this misguided certainty compound across months of customer interactions.
Adjective
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But then, the writer himself might get confused about which is which.
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For example, a lot of fans were a bit confused on Friday after watching Miguel Almiron be sent off in the first half of Paraguay’s win against Turkey.
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“Deluded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deluded. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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