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/ˈheɪt.wɒtʃ/ · verb
(informal, transitive) To watch a television program, etc., that one dislikes, for the pleasure one derives from criticizing or making fun of it..
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.
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Hate-watch means (informal, transitive) To watch a television program, etc., that one dislikes, for the pleasure one derives from criticizing or making fun of it..
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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."
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