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duping delight

duping delight noun: the 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.

Noun

duping delight (uncountable)

  1. The 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.
    • 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/ukcrime92003
    • 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.html2011

Examples of duping delight in a sentence

  • 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:
  • 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

Forms of duping delight

alternative formduper's delight

Origin of duping delight

Neologism coined by Paul Ekman in his book Telling Lies (1992).

Questions about duping delight

What does duping delight mean?
Duping delight means the 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.
How do you use duping delight in a sentence?
Of course, this sent a tsunami of duping delight gushing through my veins.
What part of speech is duping delight?
Duping delight is a noun.

Words near duping delight in the dictionary

  1. dupiaza
  2. dupiazas
  3. dupilumab
  4. Dupin
  5. duping
  6. duping delight
  7. dupings
  8. Dupins
  9. dupion
  10. dupioni
  11. dupionis

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