hate-watch
verb (used with object)
to watch (a TV show, movie, video, actor, etc.) that one professes to dislike, often with the intention to mock or criticize.
hate-watcher
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a word derived from
hate-watch.
Example Sentences
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I’m not a hate-watcher of the show or its star — I, too, wish to moonlight as a domestic doyenne.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2025
If popular media regularly produce discussion, the hate-watcher is better equipped to poison that well.
From Salon ● Apr. 26, 2021
Keeping the shows, songs and movies the hate-watcher despises close at hand – rather than trying to avoid or repel them – can make them better prosecutors in the court of public opinion.
From Salon ● Apr. 26, 2021
