delude

How to use delude in a sentence

The problem is that we delude ourselves into thinking that our intentions are still selfless.

Most of us have dragged our feet and deluded ourselves for too long about the state of the world.

CALIFORNIA’S FOREVER FIREBY ELIZABETH WEIL, PROPUBLICA, PHOTOGRAPHY BY MERIDITH KOHUT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINEJANUARY 3, 2022PROPUBLICA

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.

At others, I yield to a fools paradise and delude myself with impossible solutions that deceive me but for an hour.

But, in any case, there is no use to delude ourselves as to what are the real qualifications of Mr. Filipino.

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 very preparations that were made to delude us contained the evidence of their own clumsy manufacture.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985