duping delight
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.13 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
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.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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"
- "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"
- "Of course, this sent a tsunami of duping delight gushing through my veins."
- "It is important to draw the distinction between duping delight and pathological lying."
- "The duping delight increases when the liars have successfully deceived people with high reputation of being difficult to be fooled."
- "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/"