hate-watched; hate-watching

transitive verb

informal
: to watch and take pleasure in laughing at or criticizing (a disliked television show, movie, etc.)
The creative leap of The Leftovers' sophomore season fully made up for the creative nadir of True Detective's second year (though maybe not the ratings), and at least we were able to hate-watch the latter, right? Cory Barker

Examples of hate-watch in a Sentence

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Truth be told, there wasn’t much of the nearly three-and-a-half-hour Peacock telecast that would have counted as a hate-watch for the average open-minded viewer, with the vast majority of the multiple-generation-spanning artists acquitting themselves. Chris Willman, Variety, 15 Feb. 2025 Are there millions of people hate-watching movies on Netflix? Todd Spangler, Variety, 19 Sep. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

2008, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of hate-watch was in 2008

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“Hate-watch.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hate-watch. Accessed 28 Feb. 2025.

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