(v. t.) To lead from truth or into error; to mislead the mind or judgment of; to beguile; to impose on; to dupe; to make a fool of.
(v. t.) To frustrate or disappoint.
Example Sentences:
(1) England will not delude themselves that this match, and with it the series, was lost because of a single piece of sharp practice by Sachithra Senanayake – or even, if they take a more self-critical approach, one moment of doziness from Jos Buttler and a separate breakdown in communication between the wicketkeeper and Chris Jordan.
(2) Self-analysing but also self-deluding, strongly driven but curiously aimless, Sanders is an early version of a character-type that recurs throughout Ballard's fiction.
(3) Edwards, an economist at investment bank Société Générale, warned investors that they were deluded if they thought that the west could avoid being affected by problems in emerging markets, or that central bankers could successfully come to the rescue by cutting the cost of credit to boost consumer and business borrowing.
(4) *** I sometimes wonder when precisely I stopped thinking of myself as a socialist – as with so much else, I’d like to blame Blair for it; I’d like to tub-thumpingly decry his emasculation of the Labour party; his resistance to true industrial democracy; his personal greed and public duplicity – and, most of all, his enthusiastic participation in the Bush administration’s self-deluding “military interventions”.
(5) On a trip to the Near East, Dadd became deluded that the Egyptian god Osiris was directing him to eliminate the devil's influence.
(6) This looks like a deluded bolt-on to the “35% strategy” whereby Miliband will supposedly sweep into Downing Street thanks to Labour’s core vote and disaffected former Lib Dem supporters; it only compounds the sense that people at the top of the Labour party are lost in the psephological woods.
(7) The British Medical Journal said that "to pull off either of these challenges would therefore be breathtaking; to believe that you could manage both of them at once is deluded".
(8) In 1893 shortly after the tragic death of his young son and of his mentor Charcot, Gilles de la Tourette was shot by a deluded woman who had been a patient at the Salpêtrière.
(9) "Keeping the military candidate [in the race] and overturning the elected parliament after granting the military police the right to arrest is a complete coup and whoever thinks that millions of youth will let it pass is deluding themselves," he said in a statement on his Facebook page.
(10) His message to the Israeli left – and perhaps to John Kerry, now on yet another peacemaking trip to Jerusalem – is that it can delude itself no more that dealing with the relatively easy matter of the post-1967 occupation will be enough to bring peace.
(11) Anyone who thinks everything can be reduced to data is probably deluding themselves.” A picture caption in this article was edited on 4 August 2015.
(12) If someone is going to put you in touch with your dead child you'd want to know if they were real, deluded or a scam artist."
(13) Alex Kozinski, a federal appeals judge on the court that initially ruled in favour of the stay, said before Wood’s death that lethal injections should be replaced by firing squads and that the public should stop trying to delude itself that lethal injection was a serene method, realise the inherent brutality of executions and accept a more efficient process.
(14) I felt I'd been deluding myself about the power of narrative, a belief that I had maintained throughout my career.
(15) Feminism , according to Moran, is "simply the belief that women should be as free as men – however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy and smug they might be.
(16) The overall incidence of 1.4% is low but being a hospital incidence, the authors feel that it should not be deluding.
(17) We may be deluding ourselves in considering the condition as "new."
(18) But, Ouseley says, those people who suggest that the work of Kick It Out is complete, and that it's now time to focus primarily on homophobia and sexism, are seriously deluded.
(19) Kwarteng said of the idea of a rerun: “People are completely deluded about this.
(20) It was found that 72.9% of the patients were deluded, the most common delusions being of persecution, grandeur and guilt; in 34.9% of the deluded patients, the delusion had a religious content.
Elude
Definition:
(v. t.) To avoid slyly, by artifice, stratagem, or dexterity; to escape from in a covert manner; to mock by an unexpected escape; to baffle; as, to elude an officer; to elude detection, inquiry, search, comprehension; to elude the force of an argument or a blow.
Example Sentences:
(1) The bill allows Obama to claim another major piece of legislation to put alongside the economic stimulus bill passed last year, which stands comparison with Roosevelt's New Deal, and the healthcare bill earlier this year, which achieved a goal that had eluded previous presidents.
(2) The decision prompted Human Rights Watch to warn that he should not be allowed "to elude serious legal proceedings against him".
(3) Whether these two sera specifically affect sperm-zona pellucida binding or non-specifically affect the normal progression of capacitation remains to be eludicated.
(4) When Kristine Minde eluded Claire Rafferty at the far post she was well placed to meet Solveig Gulbrandsen’s long diagonal ball.
(5) This was a distinction that eluded the broadcaster Alan Jones on Wednesday when he was accused by an Abbott government minister of running a “racist” scare campaign about foreign ownership of Australian farmland.
(6) Such anomalous conditions occurring either alone or in combination elude diagnosis and pose problems for management.
(7) It is suggested that all patients suffering from the K-T syndrome should be examined by Doppler ultrasound in the hope that microfistulas which elude radiodiagnostic techniques might be detected and treated surgically.
(8) This disease eludes all known forms of therapy and results in edentulousness after only a few years.
(9) The phenomenon of antigenic shifts may make it possible for the bacteria to elude antibodies.
(10) The GABA-receptor at the Ascaris muscle cell which mediates a membrane hyperpolarization and muscle relaxation has eluded classification.
(11) Finally, the article demonstrates practical and efficient methods of cooperation between neurologists and the referring chiropractic physician that has eluded these professions for almost a century.
(12) It was the year when we saw predators for who they really are, even if justice eludes them.
(13) The pros and cons of the various B-scan modes are discussed, and the preferences of the combination of the linear scan and the arc scan is eludicated with experimental results.
(14) Could you have imagined at the start of your career that a league title would elude you?
(15) 9.32pm GMT 79 mins: A long Houston ball eludes Driver.
(16) The one major medal Pirlo lacks for club or country has eluded him.
(17) Nonetheless, she has dealt with these online critics with the kind of grace that eludes people older and allegedly more rational than her (well, HELLO there, Richard Dawkins!)
(18) Even classic tragedy on the Oscar Wilde scale eluded him.
(19) His inswinging ball eluded Winston Reid at the front post but found Antonio, whose stooping header came off his marker Deeney and past the bewildered Heurelho Gomes.
(20) Accordingly a number of valentines, which had been sent this year to country postmasters, at a distance from the place where they were written, with a request that they might be posted at those remote offices, have been sent to the Dead-letter office , and thence to the parties for whom they were destined, accompanied with a statement showing where the valentines were written, and the means that had been taken to elude detection.