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delude
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delude someone into something
to fool someone into thinking something. You can't delude me into believing you. Todd deluded himself into believing he was back at home.

delude someone with something

to fool or trick someone with something. She deluded us with her clever talk. Don't delude yourself with false hopes.


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Bigger deludedly thinks that his violence will provide him with a "new life" (105), as Loeb also thought his crimes had given him a triumphant "new life" (Higdon 127), and liberated him from conventional morality.
Within mere minutes, she's given a job singing backup for a deeply untalented song thrush (who deludedly dismisses her supporting vocalists, to their faces, with a blithe, ``They don't matter'').
 
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