All 5 Uses
delude
in
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
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- The irony was, now that delusions and paranoia were starting to get the best of him, it was true—he wasn't safe at home, not with all those guns around.†
p. 29.2 *delusions = false beliefs
- It wasn't easy, even though I'd been to visit my grandfather countless times growing up, because each house looked like the next: squat and boxy with minor variations, trimmed with aluminum siding or dark seventies wood, or fronted by plaster colonnades that seemed almost delusionally aspirational.†
p. 32.1
- I felt like I owed it to my grandfather not to dismiss the last thing he said to anyone in the world as delusional nonsense, and Dr. Golan was convinced that understanding them might help purge my awful dreams.†
p. 45.9delusional = out of touch with reality (having false beliefs)
- Now the truth seemed obvious: his last words had been just another sleight of hand, and his last act was to infect me with nightmares and paranoid delusions that would take years of therapy and metabolism-wrecking medications to rout out.†
p. 55.2delusions = false beliefs
- That also means I'm not good at feigning gratitude for regifted CDs of country Christmas music or subscriptions to Field and Stream—for years Uncle Les had labored under the baffling delusion that I am "outdoorsy"—but for decorum's sake I forced a smile and held up each unwrapped trinket for all to admire until the pile of presents left on the coffee table had shrunk to just three.†
p. 58.5delusion = a false belief
Definitions:
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(1)
(delude) deceive (convince to have a false belief)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)