How to Use hate-watch in a Sentence
hate-watch
verb-
Did those teams deserve a hate-watch?
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Sean McIndoe,
New York Times,
25 Mar. 2026
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There are people who love to hate-watch the show.
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EW.com,
22 Aug. 2025
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In the age of the hate-watch, the truly terrible and the seriously campy can do numbers.
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Lisa Respers France,
CNN Money,
5 Nov. 2025
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Some viewers even took to hate-watching the show, tuning in every week just to gawk at the latest episodes’ cringeworthy moments.
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Andrew McGowan,
Variety,
17 Aug. 2025
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It’s all built around virality, no matter if that comes exclusively through hate-watches and hate-listens.
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Alphonse Pierre,
Pitchfork,
13 Mar. 2026
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And Just Like That … gave us many reasons to hate-watch—Carrie’s increasingly absurd attire among them.
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Alex Apatoff,
PEOPLE,
8 Dec. 2025
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Spencer Pratt, the reality star people love to hate-watch, is running for office—and betting that infamy can be political currency.
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Louis Staples,
The Atlantic,
1 June 2026
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Previously, showrunner Michael Patrick King shared his perspective on the hate-watching phenomenon.
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Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
17 Aug. 2025
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When the nation tunes in for, at best, the intrigue of watching this seemingly unprecedented player, to, at worst, hate-watching the Knicks en route to either insufferable triumph or schadenfreude-laden failure?
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Dan Shanoff,
New York Times,
3 June 2026
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