a true friend helps us to break through the barriers of self-deceit
another term for self-deception
Example sentencesExamples
Even non-believers must accept the human propensity to self-deceit, selfishness, and evil.
They tilt at windmills and the hardships they endure are nothing more than the fruits of their own self-deceit.
He has an eye for the compromises and self-deceits that can make us ‘either tyrant or traitor or prisoner’.
In these murky circumstances, filled with self-deceit and double standards, the corruption of language is inevitable.
By the close of the story, it seems that the narrator has only begun to come to terms with the self-deceit he has practiced on himself.
This is a story of self-deceit on the grandest scale.
The quest for precision can lead biographers to criticize the factual inconsistencies, exaggerations, falsehoods, or self-deceit often found in autobiographies.
Undoubtedly, in some cases, this amounts to self-deceit and the telling of lies to others.
Every armed conflict will merely exacerbate the condition of mutual misunderstanding and self-deceit.
Yet among many military spokesmen, there was a wilful self-deceit about the effects of these chemicals.
Definition of self-deceit in US English:
self-deceit
noun
a true friend helps us to break through the barriers of self-deceit
another term for self-deception
Example sentencesExamples
Undoubtedly, in some cases, this amounts to self-deceit and the telling of lies to others.
Yet among many military spokesmen, there was a wilful self-deceit about the effects of these chemicals.
They tilt at windmills and the hardships they endure are nothing more than the fruits of their own self-deceit.
The quest for precision can lead biographers to criticize the factual inconsistencies, exaggerations, falsehoods, or self-deceit often found in autobiographies.
Every armed conflict will merely exacerbate the condition of mutual misunderstanding and self-deceit.
This is a story of self-deceit on the grandest scale.
He has an eye for the compromises and self-deceits that can make us ‘either tyrant or traitor or prisoner’.
By the close of the story, it seems that the narrator has only begun to come to terms with the self-deceit he has practiced on himself.
Even non-believers must accept the human propensity to self-deceit, selfishness, and evil.
In these murky circumstances, filled with self-deceit and double standards, the corruption of language is inevitable.