Delude is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DELUDE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to mislead that what is true is false
• make (someone) believe something that is not true
• 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.
• To frustrate or disappoint.
• be false to; be dishonest with
• deceive
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to mislead the mind or judgment of

Words related to DELUDE

deceive13 deludable13 deluded10 deluder9 deluders10 deludes9 deluding11 deludingly16

Words that contain DELUDE

deluded10 deluder9 deludes9 deluders10 undeluded12

How to use DELUDE in a sentence

• Ah foolish girl, wilt thou for ever delude thyself, wilt thou be for ever extracting comfort from despair? No! Long enough hast thou been misguided by the meteor of hope.
• Copies of letters from Tomlinson, and of pretended ones from his own relations, calculated to pacify and delude her.
• He never can want excuses to them for what has happened, any more than pretences to those he would delude.
• You think I am about to delude you, as before, into a mock marriage.
• At the far end of the room Joel March played with his steak and tried to delude himself into thinking he was eating.
• They wear the semblance of wisdom, yet it is but a cloak to snare and delude mankind into testing their intelligence.
• The question is whether he does not delude himself.
• I do not delude myself even now, for I know that I shall not be to her what I have been, nor what I might have been but for the combined forces of circumstances.
• I would sometimes take her for a long walk, which was really much beyond her strength, solely in order that we might delude ourselves with vain hopes.
• And that any mercy would be shown, to one of us at all events, I did not for one moment delude myself.
• The average man, at least, cannot delude himself into the belief that there is comfort to be found in a great deal of the harsh-angled stuff paraded as artistic.
• So credulous are the people that the priests delude them into the belief that they actually pass through the mountain to the lake.
• It would be wiser, perhaps, to wait a little and trust to my cunning to delude her into leaving the cabin of her own accord.
• Her stove-burned face and print gown do not delude him as to her real position.
• It had the scenic effect on her which greatly contributes to delude the wits.
• Who shall or can forbid him? But let him not delude himself with the notion that his faith is evidence of the objective reality of that in which he trusts.
• Delude not yourself with thinking that you will be wiser than your parents.
• You both delude yourselves miserably if you think that Cecil could live under disgrace.
• It was no use to try and delude himself that he could escape the police.
• Let not the wily enemies of your freedom delude you.
• I concluded that the simple campaign of existence for me was to delude the populace, or as much of it as would look at me.
• But the romantic effect of distance may delude and conceal as well as glorify and liberate.
• I can say, truly, that from the very first I did not so delude myself.
• All this, however, does not for a moment delude that which lies deepest within us.
• He could not long delude himself as to the nature of the feeling with which Liza had inspired him.
• She tries also to delude herself with words, and to discover something in them which would transform her.
• Here for five days, by the sparkling waters of the Shenandoah, the wearied soldiers rested, while their indefatigable leader employed ruse after ruse to delude the enemy.
• For a moment she distrusted her own eyes, believing that her thoughts had raised this phantom to delude her.
• Satan works in erring woman now, as in the past, to destroy and to delude.
• We may accordingly delude ourselves into imagining that a pose or a manner which really indicates habit indicates feeling instead.
• Such a person they endeavor to delude with various pretences.
• It may be, that it pleases me to delude mankind, while I thus serve the deities.
• He could no longer delude himself into the belief that Bella loved him, for all her actions went to prove the contrary.
• He did it privately, so as to keep any inkling of his plot secret till he had secured the further information which he hoped to delude them into bringing.

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