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[ UK /dɪlˈuːd/ ]
[ US /dɪˈɫud/ ]
VERB
  1. be false to; be dishonest with

How To Use delude In A Sentence

  • Cupidity and our ability to delude ourselves are constant. The Volokh Conspiracy » Fannie Meltdown?
  • In common with most social networking sites, Facebook has always seemed like a kind of yapping gallery of the lost, the deluded and the damned; if I fancy any of that, I can go to the pub with friends. It's our class, not our colour, that screws us up
  • These men were literally deluded, and those who urged them on were _deluded_ by what was then called the liberal part of the press. Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 1
  • A chasseur had been dispatched with the counterorder, who passed the exulting, but deluded G---- on the road. The Stranger in France or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris Illustrated by Engravings in Aqua Tint of Sketches Taken on the Spot.
  • Blofeldism, an impossible and megalomaniac belief in world domination, is a perfect parody of Nazism and Stalinism —just as empty and just as deluded, although, thanks to 007, not nearly as deadly.
  • This is not simply the story of a gentle, deluded old man whose attempts to expiate his guilt were poorly judged.
  • Each one was a girl of fair common-sense, and she did not delude herself with any vain conceits, or dress herself up, or give herself airs, in the idea of outshining the others.
  • I don't mean the big-name celebrities, the deluded orchestrators behind it all.
  • It is easy to delude yourself into believing you're in love.
  • The latter symbolizes that egoistic force of maya (the everyday world) which deludes individuals and keeps them from knowing their innate nature as god.
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