How to Use deluded in a Sentence

deluded

adjective

• That is, the more deluded the stalker, the more protected the stalking.
  — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 27 June 2023
• But far more deluded critics object to the film for being immoral.
  — Jack Butler, National Review, 25 Dec. 2020
• Is forgiveness a deluded and desperate choice or an act of bravery?
  — Alex Mar, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2023
• If Trump returns to the White House in 2025, only the willfully deluded could imagine that a second Trump administration would be less volatile and alarming than the first.
  — Malcolm Turnbull, Foreign Affairs, 31 May 2024
• Luck's announcement left fans and observers feeling shock and confusion and, in a handful of deluded cases, anger.
  — Adam Kilgore, courant.com, 26 Aug. 2019
• This is about an abusive male grifter who uses the levers of the law and its many domestic violence–enabling loopholes to wreak havoc on the life of a deluded but innocent woman.
  — Julia Felsenthal, Vogue, 23 Nov. 2018
• The real fun, however — and there is much of it — lies in simply watching Gad and Rannells run riot, riff with each other, play with the audience, and just have a grand old time once again playing sweet, deluded dreamers.
  — Frank Rizzo, Variety, 12 Oct. 2023
• Heatherwick distributes bits of blame to clients, critics, schools, and other deluded gatekeepers.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 23 Oct. 2023
• But point me to the critic of objectivity who wants a more deluded, less curious, unrigorous press.
  — Max Moran, The New Republic, 4 Apr. 2023
• After all, what really happens across its hundreds of pages except that a deluded old man endures an endless series of physical punishments and nasty pranks?
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2023
• Shortly after Roy returned to India, in 1930, in a deluded attempt to influence the independence movement, he was arrested and imprisoned by the British.
  — Thomas Meaney, The New Yorker, 10 May 2021
• The state had failed its citizens, advocacy groups had failed the public, and an entire civilization had cosseted itself in a deluded sense of its own rectitude.
  — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2020
• These men and women are not protesting the elimination of Southern culture and history, but rather reacting to their own deluded notions that white people are losing control of our country.
  — Tyler Coates, Esquire, 12 Aug. 2017
• Unfortunately, this sort of deluded thinking is just as prevalent in our modern world; nowhere more so than in cybersecurity.
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 19 May 2018
• Sondheim and Weidman can try to come up with outlandish scenarios, like a bunch of ghosts urging Oswald to take up his rifle, but reality is always a thousand steps ahead, making up darker and weirder and more deluded stories.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 15 Nov. 2021
• But this all comes at the end of this addictively chronicled history, in six parts, of a deluded autocrat and his equally imperious czarina, German-born and the granddaughter of Queen Victoria.
  — Dorothy Rabinowitz, WSJ, 27 June 2019
• Although anyone who considers Bono profound is laughably deluded — Bono simply parrots the liberal cant that leftists hold as proof of their moral superiority.
  — Armond White, National Review, 20 Sep. 2023
• The film suggests the deluded single-mindedness of many missionaries in foreign lands, bringing with them not holiness but violence and spiritual unrest.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 May 2022
• Putin is frequently described as mercurial, deluded, and irrational—someone who cannot be bargained with on the basis of national or political self-interest.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 3 May 2023
• Has your past self’s deluded optimism resulted in a massively overbooked social calendar?
  — Irving Ruan, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 4 Dec 2024