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Something, such as a film, television programme, or piece of music, that one enjoys despite feeling that it is not generally held in high regard.
‘everybody has a guilty pleasure—for me, it has to be mid 70s disco’
as modifier‘the average disaster movie falls into the 'guilty pleasure' category’
‘I can see how a film like this could be a guilty pleasure, but life is too short to watch trash like this.’
‘It's a fondness I can't reconcile with any feminist leanings I might have, so I've learned to embrace it as a guilty pleasure.’
‘He created the kind of blockbusters that were more than a guilty pleasure.’
‘So basically, this is a "guilty pleasure" cd for me.’
‘The result is a guilty pleasure that provides a shamefully enjoyable piece of brain-dead fun.’
‘It's at best a guilty pleasure and at worst your typical teen flick.’
‘It's been a bad year for good movies, but it's been a great one for guilty pleasures.’
‘Perennial favorites include losing weight, exercising, quitting smoking and even cutting back on guilty pleasures like chocolate.’
‘Just as everyone else has their own list of guilty pleasures, so everyone has their own list of overrated standouts.’
‘In some ways, this movie almost seems like a guilty pleasure.’
‘They like to say they cater guilty pleasures for adventurous movie fans.’
‘It's probably their most recognisable track and contains a guilty pleasure thanks to its chant-along chorus and welcome sense of familiarity.’
‘Celebrity gossip is my guilty pleasure.’
‘Now in its fourth series, the show is a gold-plated guilty pleasure.’
‘It may only be a guilty pleasure, but at least this one won't go straight to your thighs.’
‘Some songs are so catchy, they feel almost like guilty pleasures.’
‘A lot of reporters have for a long time read blogs - often ones run by their friends - as a sort of guilty pleasure.’
‘You can actually get away with corny jokes, and I bet your sense of humor is a guilty pleasure for your friends.’
‘As a display of scenery-chewing bombast, it might even have been an enjoyable guilty pleasure.’
‘The movie is exactly what it needs to be to succeed: trashy, dumb, and flashy - in short, one of the guiltiest pleasures to reach multiplexes this year.’