English

Noun

duping delight ‎(uncountable)

1. The pleasure of being able to manipulate someone, often made visible to others by flashing a smile at an inappropriate moment.
   • 2003: High-stake lies may also generate emotions that don't fit what the person is saying: fear of being caught, guilt about lying, or what I call 'duping delight', may leak in the face, body or voice and suggest the person is not being truthful.
   • 2011: Weiner smiled inappropriately during many interviews, revealing what interrogators refer to as "duping delight" -- a flash of a smile at the unconscious pleasure of "getting away with it."
   • 2012, Alex Stone, Fooling Houdini: Adventures in the World of Magic, ISBN 1446473309, page 276:

     Of course, this sent a tsunami of duping delight gushing through my veins.

   • 2014, Timothy R. Levine, Encyclopedia of Deception, ISBN 1483306895, page 320:

     It is important to draw the distinction between duping delight and pathological lying.

   • 2015, Chee Seng Leow, ‎Saiful Amin Jalun, ‎& Maisarah Ahmad, Trapping the Cunning Fox, page 79:

     The duping delight increases when the liars have successfully deceived people with high reputation of being difficult to be fooled.

   • 2014: Unfortunately, dealing with a human being displaying duping delight is not so simple.