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hate-watched

hate-watched is the simple past and past participle of hate-watch.

Meaning of hate-watch

Verb

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

  1. (informal, transitive) To watch a television program, etc., that one dislikes, for the pleasure one derives from criticizing or making fun of it.
  2. To watch a sports game of a particular team in hopes of seeing them lose; because of a rivalry or that the loss of that particular team would help another team's standings.
    • 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."2013 September 25, Jonathan Black, “Spice up your life … this fall”, in The Pendulum, volume 39, number 14, Elon, N.C.: Communications Media Board, Elon College, →OCLC, archived from the original on...

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Questions about hate-watched

What is hate-watched the simple past and past participle of?
Hate-watched is the simple past and past participle of hate-watch.

Words near hate-watched in the dictionary

  1. hate-reads
  2. hate-sex
  3. hate-speech
  4. hate-watch
  5. hate-watchable
  6. hate-watched
  7. hate-watcher
  8. hate-watchers
  9. hate-watches
  10. hate-watching
  11. hateable

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