Delude

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–verb (used with object) 

1. to mislead the mind or judgment of; deceive: His conceit deluded him into believing he was important. 

2. Obsolete. to mock or frustrate the hopes or aims of.

3. Obsolete. to elude; evade. 





 　

In the novel’s close notice Frank is a deluded, dissipated [bore] who imagines himself "as an intense, nicotinestained Jean-Paul-Sartre sort of man," but is merely an adulterer [spicing] his talk with literary references while following work so stultifying and meaningless that he even laughs at himself.





　

It all seemed so clear. And at the proper moment, the forces of justice stepped forward, mocked the witches' prophecies which deluded poor Macbeth and set things right for the final curtain. There were, no doubt, those who thought the play was about how Malcolm became king of Scotland.





bamboozle

Anna is continually [bamboozled] by the Trans-Siberians, a tribe whose every pleasantry [carries] a threat.

skulduggery

bribery, [graft], and other such skulduggery.  

Sham