guilty pleasure

noun

: something pleasurable that induces a usually minor feeling of guilt

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On social media, commentators expressed bafflement that Musk would do this; video games, after all, are a time-consuming hobby, a habit that many view as a guilty pleasure, rather than an accomplishment. Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025 Travis Kelce is revealing his guilty pleasure show. Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Sep. 2024 Instead, those hints of a so-bad-it’s-good guilty pleasure are a fleeting tease in an action thriller that spills plenty of blood but never raises the temperature or ignites the excitement. David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Dec. 2024 Watching Bangla films in the cinema has always been a guilty pleasure of mine. Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 5 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for guilty pleasure 

Word History

First Known Use

1907, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of guilty pleasure was in 1907

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“Guilty pleasure.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/guilty%20pleasure. Accessed 28 Jan. 2025.

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