Example sentences for: self-deception

How can you use “self-deception” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Diaspora Chic ultimately fails not because it promotes national self-destruction--a little less Anglo-conformity won't doom us--but because it promotes national self-deception.

  • It is a deeply demoralizing experience for anyone who lacks adequate powers of self-deception and photo approval.

  • One fault, though, is that "this supposed autobiography is missing what often makes an autobiography great: the memoirist's obvious self-deception"(Ken Kalfus, the New York Times Book Review ). (Click here to read the first chapter.)

  • He has a "character of infinite deception and self-deception."

  • He wanted psychoanalysis to be a science of self-deception, a proof against the old pieties.


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