self-deluded

People who think they are smart and have no track record of achievements are just self-deluded, egomaniac, sick fools.

He's a textbook example of a self-deluded crypto-narcissist who, if there's any justice on this earth, will see his comeuppance.

It's those companies who will eventually stand out over self-deluded hacks who can't see up over their own swollen greed.

*Okay, there's a difference between self-deluded artistes and self-deluded programmers.

Just goes to show how intellectually bankrupt and self-deluded the Heritage Foundation is.

It's not really their 'fault' exactly, it's just that the public responds to entertainent products randomly and anyone who claims to have noticed a pattern in the noise is a (usually self-deluded) charlatan.

I didn't call him retarded, I called his theory retarded, I called him self-deluded.

The sad thing is that by putting something so self-deluded and defensive out in public, he's guaranteeing a death spiral for corporate morale and corporate recruiting.

Nah, only the truly self-deluded would think that.

I'm surprised you don't see right through those self-deluded quotes from him.

And just because her explanations are hand-wavey and not as precise and data-driven as the HN crowd would prefer, that does not prove she is simply self-deluded and full of shit.

The only thing we can be sure of is that the promoters will be smug, self-assured and self-deluded (or dishonest, but I think self-delusion is more common).

I’ll accept it even if you want to say, “greenlander, you’re a self-absorbed, narcissistic, self-deluded dickhead.” It’s the truth.

The real experiment of America is in seeing how self-deluded we can become if we continuously reinforce the false premise that our institutions are intrinsically good (or at least, nebulously "better").

It's also why every exclusive club interviews people under the guise of a "cultural fit" policy, or what they sometimes call a "no asshole rule" to avoid criticism, when in reality it's almost always just self-deluded bigotry.

On the contrary, in my experience, an obsession with a "great ambitious idea" without an obsession for solving an innumerate small, immediate problems which arise from that great idea is the "most important ingredient" for non-productive, self-deluded thrash.