love-hate relationship
noun
: strong feelings of both love and hatred for someone
I have a love-hate relationship with my ex-husband.
Examples of love-hate relationship in a Sentence
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Many athletes, from casual to elite, have a love-hate relationship with foam rollers.
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Rennie Dyball, Peoplemag, 22 Mar. 2023
The song, an embodiment of the love-hate relationship between lead singers Daisy Jones (Riley Keough) and Billy Dunne (Sam Claflin), doubles as a feel-good anthem with its soaring harmonies and timeless guitar chords.
—Ellise Shafer, Variety, 17 Mar. 2023
His love-hate relationship with Fox News has been aggravated by a lawsuit’s recent revelations that Rupert Murdoch and some of his network’s personalities seem to have privately thought that Trump’s claims of election fraud were nonsense.
—Steve Coll, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2023
But the public’s love-hate relationship with the rapper, designer and entrepreneur goes back way farther than that.
—Louisa Ballhaus, Robb Report, 15 Feb. 2023
Rennie Dyball, Peoplemag, 22 Mar. 2023
The song, an embodiment of the love-hate relationship between lead singers Daisy Jones (Riley Keough) and Billy Dunne (Sam Claflin), doubles as a feel-good anthem with its soaring harmonies and timeless guitar chords.
—Ellise Shafer, Variety, 17 Mar. 2023
His love-hate relationship with Fox News has been aggravated by a lawsuit’s recent revelations that Rupert Murdoch and some of his network’s personalities seem to have privately thought that Trump’s claims of election fraud were nonsense.
—Steve Coll, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2023
But the public’s love-hate relationship with the rapper, designer and entrepreneur goes back way farther than that.
—Louisa Ballhaus, Robb Report, 15 Feb. 2023
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“Love-hate relationship.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/love-hate%20relationship. Accessed 24 Apr. 2024.
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