hate-watch

Definitions

1. 1

   To watch a television program, etc., that one dislikes, for the pleasure one derives from…

   To watch a television program, etc., that one dislikes, for the pleasure one derives from criticizing or making fun of it.

2. 2

   To watch a sports game of a particular team in hopes of seeing them lose

   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.

   • 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.
3. 3

   Such a program.

   • 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.

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