self-deceptionnoun [ U ]
uk/ˌself.dɪˈsep.ʃən/us/ˌself.dɪˈsep.ʃən/the act of hiding the truth from yourself:
His claim to be an important and unjustly neglected painter is sheer self-deception - he's no good at all.
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Not believing
- are my eyes deceiving me? idiom
- as if! idiom
- authority
- believe
- believe sth when you see it idiom
- denial
- have something on good authority idiom
- I'll eat my hat idiom
- iconoclastic
- in your dreams! idiom
- incredulous
- joke
- Marines
- quarrel with sth
- salt
- satisfied
- since when idiom
- take sth with a pinch of salt idiom
- tell me another one! idiom
- worship
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