Thesaurus / delude
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Don't delude yourself with the notion that she is sitting down in sackcloth and ashes with her past!
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTONThe reader would smile to read the infatuated simple reasons with which the bishop endeavoured to delude the ignorant.
FOX'S BOOK OF MARTYRSJOHN FOXEAt others, I yield to a fools paradise and delude myself with impossible solutions that deceive me but for an hour.
THE WASTED GENERATIONOWEN JOHNSONBut, 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 POEBut Isaac was formed in too simple and honest a mould to delude the two women or himself with iridescent dreams of success.
MCCLURE'S MAGAZINE, JANUARY, 1896, VOL. VI. NO. 2VARIOUSUp 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) LEAHYOr do you think Luckstone would have permitted him to leave this evidence lying about except to delude us?
THE SUBSTITUTE PRISONERMAX MARCINThe very preparations that were made to delude us contained the evidence of their own clumsy manufacture.
THE SUBSTITUTE PRISONERMAX MARCINThey will delude no one, whilst they serve to show the base nature of the man who utters them.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, VOLUME 67, NO. 411, JANUARY 1850VARIOUSAlthough the statement was extremely delusive, I do not say that the gentleman meant to delude by it.
ABRIDGEMENT OF THE DEBATES OF CONGRESS, FROM 1789 TO 1856 (4 OF 16 VOL.)VARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO DELUDE
- act
- affect
- allege
- assume
- be deceitful
- be hypocritical
- beguile
- bluff
- cheat
- claim
- claim falsely
- counterfeit
- cozen
- deceive
- delude
- dissemble
- dissimulate
- dupe
- fake out
- feign
- fish
- fool
- fudge
- hoodwink
- impersonate
- jazz
- jive
- lay claim
- let on
- make out
- malinger
- masquerade
- mislead
- pass off
- pass oneself off as
- profess
- purport
- put on
- put up a front
- sham
- shuck and jive
- simulate
- stonewall
- sucker
- whitewash
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