guilty pleasure

noun

: something pleasurable that induces a usually minor feeling of guilt

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web

And my guilty pleasure: Selling Sunset. —Jason Sheeler, Peoplemag, 31 Mar. 2023

What is your biggest guilty pleasure? —Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 23 Feb. 2023

Rather than seeing it as a guilty pleasure, frame those sessions as part of your training—no different than pre-run activation, post-run foam rolling, or the occasional massage. —Outside Online, 15 Aug. 2019

Is that considered a guilty pleasure? —Liza Lentini, SPIN, 31 Mar. 2023

Bono doesn't feel guilty about his guilty pleasure. —Tracey Harrington Mccoy, Peoplemag, 17 Mar. 2023

This musical adaptation, with direction by Anna D. Shapiro and costumes by Arianne Phillips that look as if Miranda shops at a discount Saks Off 5th, at this point radiates none of the style or the outrageous entitlement that made the movie such a guilty pleasure. —Peter Marks, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2022

What’s your vital guilty pleasure? —ELLE, 14 June 2022

What’s your guilty pleasure? —Evan Nicole Brown, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Mar. 2022

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Word History

First Known Use

1907, in the meaning defined above