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deluding
adjective as in deceptive
Strongest matches
adjective as in delusive
adjective as in delusory
adjective as in fallacious
adjective as in false
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- apostate
- base
- beguiling
- canting
- corrupt
- crooked
- deceiving
- delusive
- devious
- dishonorable
- disloyal
- double-dealing
- duplicitous
- faithless
- falsehearted
- forsworn
- foul
- lying
- malevolent
- mean
- mythomaniac
- perfidious
- perjured
- rascally
- recreant
- renegade
- scoundrelly
- traitorous
- treacherous
- treasonable
- two-faced
- underhanded
- unfaithful
- unscrupulous
- untrustworthy
- venal
- villainous
- wicked
adjective as in hypocritical
adjective as in misleading
adjective as in Pecksniffian
Weak matches
- affected
- artificial
- assuming
- bland
- canting
- captious
- caviling
- deceptive
- dissembling
- double
- double-dealing
- duplicitous
- faithless
- false
- feigning
- fishy
- fraudulent
- glib
- hollow
- insincere
- jivey
- left-handed
- lying
- moralistic
- oily
- pharisaic
- pharisaical
- phony
- pietistic
- pious
- sanctimonious
- self-righteous
- smooth
- smooth-spoken
- smooth-tongued
- snide
- specious
- spurious
- two-faced
- unctuous
- unnatural
- unreliable
adjective as in pharisaic
Weak matches
- affected
- artificial
- assuming
- bland
- canting
- captious
- caviling
- deceptive
- dissembling
- double
- double-dealing
- duplicitous
- faithless
- false
- feigning
- fishy
- fraudulent
- glib
- hollow
- insincere
- jivey
- left-handed
- lying
- moralistic
- oily
- Pecksniffian
- pharisaical
- phony
- pietistic
- pious
- sanctimonious
- self-righteous
- smooth
- smooth-spoken
- smooth-tongued
- snide
- specious
- spurious
- two-faced
- unctuous
- unnatural
- unreliable
adjective as in pharisaical
Weak matches
- affected
- artificial
- assuming
- bland
- canting
- captious
- caviling
- deceptive
- dissembling
- double
- double-dealing
- duplicitous
- faithless
- false
- feigning
- fishy
- fraudulent
- glib
- hollow
- insincere
- jivey
- left-handed
- lying
- moralistic
- oily
- Pecksniffian
- pharisaic
- phony
- pietistic
- pious
- sanctimonious
- self-righteous
- smooth
- smooth-spoken
- smooth-tongued
- snide
- specious
- spurious
- two-faced
- unctuous
- unnatural
- unreliable
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Example Sentences
Not quite lies, but self-deluding and irresponsible fantasy.
For somebody to deny this at this time is, I think, deluding themselves.
We are deluding ourselves if we do not see the parallel between intolerant or hateful rhetoric and its inevitable consequence.
Neptune retrograde, from Friday, signals the end of deluding yourself in a heady bond.
It also makes glaring situations in which you are deluding yourself.
Now I have no further excuse for temporising, for deluding myself.
Does not look like the Peace I have been deluding myself with, does it?
On the contrary, they will expose his true character and unmask his deception to the poor dupes whom he is cajoling and deluding.
So you seek refuge in the thought that he must be deluding himself and them, perhaps unconsciously.
His clothes were very good and his appearance still excellent, but it involved the trouble of deluding.
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On this page you'll find 454 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to deluding, such as: ambiguous, deceitful, disingenuous, false, fraudulent, and misleading.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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