How to Use deluded in a Sentence

deluded

adjective
  • My homies then were deluded, too.
    — Manuel Muñoz, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
  • That’s when the deluded lead them.
    — Steve H. Hanke, Fortune, 23 Feb. 2026
  • But far more deluded critics object to the film for being immoral.
    — Jack Butler, National Review, 25 Dec. 2020
  • That is, the more deluded the stalker, the more protected the stalking.
    — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 27 June 2023
  • Jürgen’s appeared as wildly deluded as my own.
    — Roger Bennett, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Is forgiveness a deluded and desperate choice or an act of bravery?
    — Alex Mar, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2023
  • But where the stalker remains self-deluded to the end, Jack’s self-righteousness is tinged with self-awareness.
    — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Here, this happily deluded dingus is played by a modern master of the type, David Cross.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2025
  • Earlier this morning, abusive and deluded homeless man dressed in white was shouting up and down our street, blowing on trumpet.
    — Jay Martel, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Luck's announcement left fans and observers feeling shock and confusion and, in a handful of deluded cases, anger.
    — Adam Kilgore, courant.com, 26 Aug. 2019
  • About deluded coaches and philandering teammates and practice-field punch-ups.
    — Leander Schaerlaeckens june 8, Literary Hub, 8 June 2026
  • Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band is no deluded attempt to deny the passage of time.
    — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Heatherwick distributes bits of blame to clients, critics, schools, and other deluded gatekeepers.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 23 Oct. 2023
  • But point me to the critic of objectivity who wants a more deluded, less curious, unrigorous press.
    — Max Moran, The New Republic, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Arsenal’s aesthetically pleasing style was mocked for being too naïve and soft, its fans for being too deluded and entitled.
    — Ian Crouch, New Yorker, 20 May 2026
  • This is about an abusive male grifter who uses the levers of the law and its many domestic violence–enabling loopholes to wreak havoc on the life of a deluded but innocent woman.
    — Julia Felsenthal, Vogue, 23 Nov. 2018
  • Carrie, meanwhile, is villainized for her admittedly deluded quest to reunite with her biological son in a world that has dismissed them.
    — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Unfortunately, this sort of deluded thinking is just as prevalent in our modern world; nowhere more so than in cybersecurity.
    — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 19 May 2018
  • After all, what really happens across its hundreds of pages except that a deluded old man endures an endless series of physical punishments and nasty pranks?
    — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Hope is often beautiful and deluded, fleeting and fragile and precious, but satisfaction and its opposite are real.
    — George Caulkin, New York Times, 28 May 2025
  • But to say Starship will not be a game-changer represents the same head-in-the-sand attitude displayed by Bowles a decade ago with his jokes about not waking the deluded dreamers up.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 26 June 2024
  • The state had failed its citizens, advocacy groups had failed the public, and an entire civilization had cosseted itself in a deluded sense of its own rectitude.
    — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2020
  • His freelance interior-designer wife, Lindsay, isn’t so deluded.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2026
  • These are monumental achievements, inconceivable in the past, that will allow the state to navigate the swings and roundabouts a deluded Congress imposes on us.
    — Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 5 July 2025
  • These men and women are not protesting the elimination of Southern culture and history, but rather reacting to their own deluded notions that white people are losing control of our country.
    — Tyler Coates, Esquire, 12 Aug. 2017
  • The film suggests the deluded single-mindedness of many missionaries in foreign lands, bringing with them not holiness but violence and spiritual unrest.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 May 2022
  • Putin is frequently described as mercurial, deluded, and irrational—someone who cannot be bargained with on the basis of national or political self-interest.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 3 May 2023
  • Rather than a cruel Hedda, a fragile Hedda, a tragically deluded Hedda, Adele saw a woman who was comically at her wits’ end.
    — Jonathan Franzen, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
  • The real fun, however — and there is much of it — lies in simply watching Gad and Rannells run riot, riff with each other, play with the audience, and just have a grand old time once again playing sweet, deluded dreamers.
    — Frank Rizzo, Variety, 12 Oct. 2023
  • What concerns those who study political violence is that the public tensions and fighting have a way of filtering into deluded and unstable minds, indirectly leading to violence.
    — Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, Washington Post, 14 July 2024

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