hate-watch

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈheɪtwɒtʃ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈheɪtwɑtʃ/

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• Hyphenation: hate‧watch

hate-watch (third-person singular simple present hate-watches, present participle hate-watching, simple past and past participle hate-watched)

1. (transitive, informal) To watch a television programme, etc., that one dislikes, for the pleasure one gets from criticizing or making fun of it.
   • 2013 September 25, Jonathan Black, “Spice up your life … this fall”, in The Pendulum‎^[1], volume 39, number 14, Elon, N.C.: Communications Media Board, Elon College, →OCLC, page 29:

     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."

   • 2014 February, Laura K. Garrison, “The good, the bad, and the Girls”, in Barnard Bulletin‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: Barnard College, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 19:

     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.

   • 2014 October 19, Anne Breslaw, “What happens when the chill girl falls in love”, in Cosmopolitan‎^[3], New York, N.Y.: Hearst Corp., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 April 2016:

     I pretended I hate-watched Sex and the City, when in truth I love it earnestly to the point of being deranged.

   • 2023 July 6, Jacob Fleisher, Charlie Jackson, Stephen Herczeg, “Get Off My Lawnie” (10:37 from the start), in Charlotte Jackson, director, The Patrick Star Show, season 1, episode 25b, spoken by Granny Tentacles (Cree Summer):

     Granny Tentacles: Ah, this show's pretty good... for me to hate-watch!

• hate watch, hatewatch

• hate-watchable
• hate-watcher
• hate-watching

hate-watch (plural hate-watches)

1. (informal) Such a programme.
   • 2021 December 22, Jason Farago, “‘Emily in Paris’ and the City I Thought Was Mine”, in The New York Times‎^[4], →ISSN:

     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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