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• n  a misconception that is favorable to the person who holds it

• Thus no one is served, neither writer nor audience, by reviving Peter Shaffer's one-acts about sex, greed and self-deceit.
• HUGHIE by EUGENE O'NEILL A true Irishman, Eugene O'Neill was a connoisseur of illusion and self-deceit.
• In Jones' eight-ounce gloves, black is beautiful, black is ugly, black is violent, black is gentle, black is self-deceit, black is truthin brief, black is a man, and a man is .

• self-deception

News & Articles

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• Obamacare fosters split personality
  We would all like to see our lives governed by sound reasoning and understanding, but in practice we often allow ourselves to be driven by self-deceit. What we accept as truth and wisdom is frequently based less on facts and more on what we want to believe and achieve.
  April 4, 2014 - Worcester Telegram & Gazette

Quotes

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• Ehud Olmert in New York Times
  After the failure of the Palestinian unity government, Mr. Olmert said in an interview with The New York Times, "I suggest we look at things in a much more realistic manner and with less self-deceit."