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deluded
[ dih-loo-did ]
adjective
- entertaining a false belief or opinion; mistaken or deceived in mind or judgment:
While some deluded commentators welcomed this as "fantastic news," the rest of us were seriously upset.
verb
- the simple past tense and past participle of delude ( def ).
Other 51Թ Forms
- ԴDz··ܻ· adjective
- ܲ··ܻ· adjective
- ܲ··ܻ··ly adverb
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of deluded1
Example Sentences
He’s so deluded about what sounds cool that he’s nicknamed himself “The Garbage Man.”
“It was the example of men like Darrow that caused the poor deluded wretch, J.B. McNamara, to believe that he could commit the crimes he did with safety to himself,” Ford said.
To make matters very slightly worse, some of the more deluded or imaginative of those left-wing thinkers have occasionally pretzeled themselves into optimism about Donald Trump’s foreign policy, basically on the stopped-clock theory.
Although some have deluded themselves into thinking the contrary, there will be no deus ex machina moment to stop this from happening.
They were just a useful punching bag for fascist leaders, who needed a hate object to dangle in front of their deluded supporters.
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