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- noun Plural form of
deluder .
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Examples
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At least she didn't give some bull about how "I think I did really well," like these other self-deluders.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor: Samoa Finale: A Confederacy of Douches. 2009
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These middle-aged self-deluders set themselves up to be caught and thereby to prove to themselves they don't deserve to have reached the positions they've reached.
David Finkle: The Breakfast Club Takes on Jackson, Fawcett, Sanford, Mrs. Madoff 2009
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“This I tell thee, O King,” added the favourite “but that thou mayst not accept one word from these deluders, else will there befal thee that whereby thou wilt destroy thyself.”
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Arch – Usurper, — since she has condemned, by her sovereign authority, the blasphemous, atheistical, and anarchical tenets of Locke, and other deluders of the public mind.
Redgauntlet 2008
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But if it be required that a sage should always join in opinion with the deluders of mankind, is not this clearly the same as requiring that he should not be an honest man?
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"The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders."
No Greater Promoters and Protectors of Al-Qaeda in America 2007
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Did you notice the following things he said during the Dover seminar: 1. On both days one of his first slides warned the audience that people who disagree with his Bible science presentation “scoffers and deluders” should not be listened to lest they lead the “little children” away from the faith.
Dino Adventure Land Could Face Extinction - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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Our armies of assistants-informers, fools, parasites, traitors, the twisted self-deluders and misshapen, misbegotten believers we so deliberately recruit are in every land, feeding off one another like the vermin they all are, fueled by their own selfish wants and fears, all expendable sooner or later.
Noble House Clavell, James 1981
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Our armies of assistants — informers, fools, parasites, traitors, the twisted self-deluders and misshapen, misbegotten believers we so deliberately recruit are in every land, feeding off one another like the vermin they all are, fueled by their own selfish wants and fears, all expendable sooner or later.
Noble House Clavell, James 1981
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Many people at the present time allow themselves to be persuaded into being anti-vaccinators because neither they nor their deluders have ever known what an epidemic of smallpox is, have never seen with their own eyes the awful spectacle of a person suffering from smallpox in any of its forms -- discrete, confluent or hemorrhagic.
Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 Anonymous
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