Sentence examples for self-deceit from inspiring English sources
noun
Synonym of self-deception
Sometimes, he says, people cannot live without self-deceit.
Watch out whenever you "tell yourself" anything; it's the red flag of self-deceit.
Is that a moment of self-revelation, or more self-deceit?
Depression is such a complex mix of self-knowledge and self-deceit.
As feminism has also argued, it is a colossal act of self-deceit.
Everyone is welcome to his self-deceit, to his measly cowardice.
The Australian, the paper that serialised them, described the diaries as a "mass of self-deceit and delusion".
Malcolm's position as an outsider is a structural necessity in her work that requires for its drama the establishment, early on, of transgressions and self-deceits in the thing she is writing about.
But now that it's out – most things come out in the end – we need to know who knew what so that the routine claims since Snowden broke cover that Tempora and its kind are properly accountable can be exposed for the self-serving deceits they probably are.
The story is based on miscommunication, self-sacrifice, deceit, unavailability, and secrecy.
Largely through historical examples and personal anecdotes, Robert Trivers builds the foundation for an evolutionary theory of self-deception and deceit in his recent book, The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life.
