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love-hate relationship

[ luhv-heyt ri-ley-shuhn-ship ]

noun

  1. a state of ambivalence in which one feels both love and hate for someone or something:

    Transylvania has something of a love-hate relationship with Dracula tourism.

    The love-hate relationship between directors and actors is entertainingly dissected in this kiss-and-tell memoir from the directing frontlines.



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˜yĐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of love-hate relationship1

First recorded in 1920–25
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Example Sentences

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“I kind of have a love-hate relationship with the Innocence Project,” he said.

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The anchor had a sense of humor about the audience’s love-hate relationship with him.

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“I didn’t live out a lot of the things that Kate did in the movie,” she says of the onetime tornado chaser played by Daisy Edgar-Jones, “but I know what it’s like going home and having that heartbreak, and it’s like a bittersweet feeling of having a love-hate relationship with the place that you’re from.”

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This explains the love-hate relationship South Korea’s film and television creators currently have with international streaming platforms.

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In “Two Things,” she finds the ragged edge of her honeyed voice to put across the exasperation involved in a love-hate relationship; in “We Broke Up,” she realizes that closure is available only to those who are ready for it: “I could take a deep dive in the details / I could hide, I could cry till I throw up / Take a stroll, camera roll, old emails / But it’s as simple as, ‘We broke up.’”

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