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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Given to or believing or fancying mistaken notions about oneself.
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Examples
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I've been praised in the past for my unreliable, self-deceiving, emotionally restrained narrators.
A Conversation with Kazuo Ishiguro about Never Let Me Go 2010
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You see, in the past, my narrators were unreliable, not because they were lunatics, but because they were ordinarily self-deceiving.
A Conversation with Kazuo Ishiguro about Never Let Me Go 2010
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It just occurred to me that "blogging" is probably the most self-deceiving thing one can do.
The 'big society' is collapsing under its inherent absurdity | Catherine Bennett 2011
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Fourth, "self-deceiving" is the name of the game, isn't it?
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The belief that you are an independent thinker and others are group thinkers, needing a nudge to analyze particulars which you bring to their attention, strikes some as arrogant, self-deceiving and patronizing.
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The outsider in this case is Mary Lesley Manville, who, as the fragile, fatally self-deceiving heroine of "Another Year," resembles a British-realist Blanche DuBois, a walking unmade bed of frazzled late middle age and frayed attempts at staying young.
Somewhere between settled and unsettling Ann Hornaday 2011
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But it is not a narrative that would have gone anywhere without an exceptionally willing, auto-enabling and self-deceiving audience, looking for the lawyerly, professional equivalent of a little prescription drug fix, Adderall and Cialis, combined.
The Volokh Conspiracy » No Righteous Gentile Awards, Please 2010
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To suppose that the draft solves the “disconnect” created by a volunteer military is self-deceiving.
Wording the Questions, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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So one can find, if one likes, the lawyers of the pro bono Guantanamo bar to be alternately deluded, hypocritical, self-indulgent, fatuous, self-interested, self-deceiving, and morally preening — while still endorsing the objective value of legal representation.
The Volokh Conspiracy » No Righteous Gentile Awards, Please 2010
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The belief that you are an independent thinker and others are group thinkers, needing a nudge to analyze particulars which you bring to their attention, strikes some as arrogant, self-deceiving and patronizing.
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