Delighted
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He pretends (very badly) to be horrified with the results (kidnapping a love rival), but in reality, he's delighted, and even a bit proud of the cabbie's progress.
Source: Film / Deadpool -
He was also taking advantage of the system to his own ends, to keep his comfortable position at the expense of others, in a way that would make a Lawful Evil character proud, and when Hacker called him a "moral vacuum," he seemed delighted.
Source: Lawful Neutral - The Viskeons were a Proud Warrior Race who delighted in the intricacies of hand-to-hand combat and individual duels, to the point where they held ranged weapons in disdain and refrained from using them.
Source: Combat Aestheticist
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