Thesaurus / delude
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
Don't delude yourself with the notion that she is sitting down in sackcloth and ashes with her past!
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTON
The reader would smile to read the infatuated simple reasons with which the bishop endeavoured to delude the ignorant.
FOX'S BOOK OF MARTYRSJOHN FOXE
At others, I yield to a fools paradise and delude myself with impossible solutions that deceive me but for an hour.
THE WASTED GENERATIONOWEN JOHNSON
But, in any case, there is no use to delude ourselves as to what are the real qualifications of Mr. Filipino.
WHERE HALF THE WORLD IS WAKING UPCLARENCE POE
But Isaac was formed in too simple and honest a mould to delude the two women or himself with iridescent dreams of success.
Up to the age of forty he had been able to delude several congregations into a belief in his fitness for the sacred ministry.
THE INCENDIARYW. A. (WILLIAM AUGUSTINE) LEAHY
Or do you think Luckstone would have permitted him to leave this evidence lying about except to delude us?
THE SUBSTITUTE PRISONERMAX MARCIN
The very preparations that were made to delude us contained the evidence of their own clumsy manufacture.
THE SUBSTITUTE PRISONERMAX MARCIN
They will delude no one, whilst they serve to show the base nature of the man who utters them.
Although the statement was extremely delusive, I do not say that the gentleman meant to delude by it.
WORDS RELATED TO DELUDE
- bamboozle
- beat
- beat out of
- beguile
- betray
- bilk
- buffalo
- burn
- cheat
- circumvent
- clip
- con
- cozen
- cross up
- defraud
- delude
- disappoint
- double-cross
- dupe
- ensnare
- entrap
- fake
- falsify
- fleece
- fool
- gouge
- gull
- hoax
- hoodwink
- hook
- humbug
- impose upon
- lead on
- outwit
- play joke on
- pull fast one
- put on
- rob
- scam
- screw
- sell
- skin
- suck in
- swindle
- take advantage of
- take for
- take for ride
- take in
- take to cleaners
- trick
- victimize
- bamboozle
- beat
- beat out of
- beguile
- betray
- bilk
- buffalo
- burn
- cheat
- circumvent
- clip
- con
- cozen
- cross up
- defraud
- delude
- disappoint
- double-cross
- dupe
- ensnare
- entrap
- fake
- falsify
- fleece
- fool
- gouge
- gull
- hoax
- hoodwink
- hook
- humbug
- impose upon
- lead on
- outwit
- play joke on
- pull fast one
- put on
- rob
- scam
- screw
- sell
- skin
- suck in
- swindle
- take advantage of
- take for
- take for ride
- take in
- take to cleaners
- trick
- victimize
- bamboozle
- beat
- beat out of
- beguile
- betray
- bilk
- buffalo
- burn
- cheat
- circumvent
- clip
- con
- cozen
- cross up
- defraud
- delude
- disappoint
- double-cross
- dupe
- ensnare
- entrap
- fake
- falsify
- fleece
- fool
- gouge
- gull
- hoax
- hoodwink
- hook
- humbug
- impose upon
- lead on
- outwit
- play joke on
- pull fast one
- put on
- rob
- scam
- screw
- sell
- skin
- suck in
- swindle
- take advantage of
- take for
- take for ride
- take in
- take to cleaners
- trick
- victimize
- abort
- baffle
- balk
- bring to naught
- bungle
- cast down
- chagrin
- circumvent
- come to nothing
- dash
- dash hopes
- deceive
- delude
- disconcert
- disenchant
- disgruntle
- dishearten
- disillusion
- dissatisfy
- dumbfound
- embitter
- fail
- fall down on
- fall flat
- fall short of
- foil
- founder
- hamper
- hinder
- leave in the lurch
- let down
- miscarry
- mislead
- not show
- put out
- ruin prospects
- stand up
- tease
- thwart
- torment
- vex
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.