hate-watch
/ˈheɪt.wɑtʃ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.91 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To watch a television program, etc., that one dislikes, for the pleasure one derives from criticizing or making fun of it.
Informal; Transitive verb
verb
To watch a sports game of a particular team in hopes of seeing them lose; because of a rivalry or that the loss of that particular team would help another team's standings.
Example Sentences
- "Among my favorite things about the season is the resounding crunch of stepping on a leaf, wearing pants all the time and the end of hate-watching yet another season of "The Newsroom.""
- "Whether Girls is on your must-see list or that show you love to hate-watch, in some way, no matter how small, it has spoken to your experience as a young woman trying to make it in one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world."
- "I pretended I hate-watched Sex and the City, when in truth I love it earnestly to the point of being deranged."
- "Granny Tentacles: Ah, this show's pretty good... for me to hate-watch!"
- "Shame seemed to be a common reaction to “Emily in Paris,” which became the hate-watch par excellence of Pandemic Year One, and whose second season arrives Wednesday on Netflix with le nouveau variant Omicron."
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈheɪt.wɑtʃ/
- British English: /ˈheɪt.wɒtʃ/