To delude is to trick or fool, often in relation to yourself. If you delude yourself into thinking your mom's chocolate cake is low in fat, you'll be disappointed to find out it's made with two sticks of butter!
imp. & p. p.
of Delude
Usage Examples
Maybe that first, gigantic deficit the Reaganites piled up was an accident, just a combination of deluded 'supply side' tax cuts and a huge bag of good stuff for the Pentagon. But pretty quickly conservatives discovered that deficits, when done correctly, did something really cool: deficits defunded the Left.
Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted.
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Other Usage ExamplesLet no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.
We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded.
I was surrounded by nature and trying to come to terms with this blissful nature versus the inhumane mentality of war. People were being deluded by someone using the word peace.
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