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- noun Plural form of
self-deception .
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Examples
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Let us be done at last with all these wretched lies, these complicitous self-deceptions that are facilitating atrocity and tyranny on a monstrous scale.
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The story deals with failed romance and the self-deceptions by which pain is held at bay, as the lodger Mrs. Nome recasts the wretched tale of her daughter's betrayal and abortion as "The Most Beautiful love-affair the passions of our world have ever brought about."
The First Lady Of Futurism Helen Carr 2011
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Our self-deceptions are so dense, piled on so thick… that it is all but impossible to break through, to get a clear view of what we really are.
History of a Suicide Jill Bialosky 2011
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No one can save us from our own self-deceptions … except us. —
The Self-Deceptive Society « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2009
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Perhaps no one is interested in hearing what they have to say when there are so many glittering, addle-headed young celebrities around to pay attention to instead, but it is enough to have that knowledge and to take wry satisfaction, rather than umbrage, at the self-deceptions of the young.
I hope when I finally grow up that I will become a Real Old Person | Tim Lott 2011
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I'm not saying it's cynical: I believe that partisans convince themselves of whatever it is they need to believe, and that those self-deceptions are sincerely held.
The individual mandate's problem is not the Constitution Ezra Klein 2010
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Night Navigation is unerring in its grasp of the multiple deceptions of the addictive relationship, the self-deceptions above all.
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Night Navigation is unerring in its grasp of the multiple deceptions of the addictive relationship, the self-deceptions above all.
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Night Navigation is unerring in its grasp of the multiple deceptions of the addictive relationship, the self-deceptions above all.
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No one can save us from our own self-deceptions … except us. —
February « 2009 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2009
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