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guilty pleasure en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. (idiomatic) Something that brings pleasure but is considered taboo, unadvisable or lowbrow.
   • Rock bands record classic albums, while pop stars create "guilty pleasure" singles. It's supposed to be self-evident: U2's entire oeuvre deserves respectful consideration, while a spookily seductive song by an R&B singer named Tweet can only be, in the smug words of a recent VH1 special, "awesomely bad." 2004 October 31, Kelefa Sanneh, “The Rap Against Rockism”, in The New York Times:
   • For the renowned sushi chef, it was a guilty pleasure to eat fish sticks drowned in tartar sauce.
   • We all have guilty pleasures, don't we? During the summer of 1993, my guilty pleasure was watching Saved by the Bell reruns. 2012, Seth Vannatta, Chuck Klosterman and Philosophy: The Real and the Cereal, Open Court, →ISBN, page ix:
   • In postmodernism, mass culture is not so much a guilty pleasure as it is the white noise of our time. 2013, Laura Frost, The Problem with Pleasure: Modernism and Its Discontents, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 242:

Forms

Translations (23)

sh slatki grijeh (something that brings pleasure but is considered taboo) · es placer culpable (something that brings pleasure but is considered taboo) · cmn 怪癖 (something that brings pleasure but is considered taboo) · pt prazer culpado (something that brings pleasure but is considered taboo) · de lasterhaftes Vergnügen (something that brings pleasure but is considered taboo) · cs tajná neřest (something that brings pleasure but is considered taboo) · ja 悪趣味 (something that brings pleasure but is considered taboo) · de sündhaftes Vergnügen (something that brings pleasure but is considered taboo) · pl grzeszna przyjemność (something that brings pleasure but is considered taboo) · sh slatki greh (something that brings pleasure but is considered taboo) · cs hříšné potěšení (something that brings pleasure but is considered taboo) · de Laster (something that brings pleasure but is considered taboo) · cmn 惡趣味 /恶趣味 (something that brings pleasure but is considered taboo) · he גילטי פלז׳ר (something that brings pleasure but is considered taboo) · cmn 負罪的快感 /负罪的快感 (something that brings pleasure but is considered taboo) · es gusto culposo (something that brings pleasure but is considered taboo) · de sündhafte Freude (something that brings pleasure but is considered taboo) · cmn 俗人之樂 /俗人之乐 (something that brings pleasure but is considered taboo) · de billiges Vergnügen (something that brings pleasure but is considered taboo) · fi salainen pahe (something that brings pleasure but is considered taboo) · de heimliches Vergnügen (something that brings pleasure but is considered taboo) · sh zabranjeno voće (something that brings pleasure but is considered taboo) · fr péché mignon (something that brings pleasure but is considered taboo)