duping delight

alternative duper's delight

1. uncountableThe pleasure of being able to manipulate and/or deceive someone, often made visible and obvious to others by flashing a smile at an inappropriate moment; getting delight out of duping an unsuspecting person.

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

   2012, Alex Stone, Fooling Houdini: Adventures in the World of Magic, →ISBN, page 276

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   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. http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/apr/27/ukcrime9

   2003

   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." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/pamela-meyer/seven-big-lies-about-lyin_b_874899.html

   2011

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

   2014, Timothy R. Levine, Encyclopedia of Deception, →ISBN, page 320

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

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

   Unfortunately, dealing with a human being displaying duping delight is not so simple. https://web.archive.org/web/20150917064650/http://familyarrested.com/what-is-duping-delight/

   2014