Sentence examples for had deluded from inspiring English sources
"At other times, I gained the impression that he was not necessarily being deliberately dishonest, but had deluded himself into believing his own version of events.
And, perhaps most devastating to a man whose inflated self-belief was nearly all he had left, she said he had "deluded himself into believing his own version of events".
At the end of the case last year, the judge called Mr. Berezovsky "dishonest," "unimpressive" and "inherently unreliable," adding that he had "deluded himself into believing his own version of events".
Then, he attacked the credulous Gülenists, "poor fools" and "apostates" who had deluded themselves into believing that their leader was touched by divinity; for as Erdoğan remonstrated sternly, "we are the slaves only of our God … only in prayer, in God's presence, do we genuflect".
Dr. Korten said that he still regarded Monsanto as "one of the most evil corporations" and that Mr. Shapiro, pressured for profits and a strong stock price, had deluded himself into thinking that genetically modified foods would help the world's poor.
At times the evidence he gave was deliberately dishonest". At other times, the judge concluded, Berezovsky had "deluded himself into believing his own version of events". She ordered him to pay Abramovich's legal fees, which exceeded $100 million.
Remain has deluded itself in myriad ways.
In this sense Abbott is hobbled, and has deluded himself.
"Reckless people have deluded themselves that this was a subprime crisis," he told me.
Conservatives have deluded themselves that the president can be reined in, or at least harnessed to their cause.
