Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

guilty pleasure

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.29 in modern English

Syllables: guilty -plea-sure
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

3

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Something that brings pleasure but is considered taboo, unadvisable or lowbrow.

Example Sentences

"For the renowned sushi chef, it was a guilty pleasure to eat fish sticks drowned in tartar sauce."
"Rock bands record classic albums, while pop stars create "guilty pleasure" singles. It's supposed to be self-evident: U2's entire oeuvre deserves respectful consideration, while a spookily seductive song by an R&B singer named Tweet can only be, in the smug words of a recent VH1 special, "awesomely bad.""
"We all have guilty pleasures, don't we? During the summer of 1993, my guilty pleasure was watching Saved by the Bell reruns."
"In postmodernism, mass culture is not so much a guilty pleasure as it is the white noise of our time."

Inflected Forms

guilty pleasures (plural)

Questions

What does guilty pleasure mean?: Something that brings pleasure but is considered taboo, unadvisable or lowbrow.

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