guilty pleasure

guilty pleasure

Something that one enjoys or finds pleasurable but knows or feels to be bad, inferior, aberrant, or lowbrow, especially as might be perceived or judged by other people. I know these gossip magazines are trashy, but reading them on my commute home is my guilty pleasure!
See also: guilty, pleasure
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • second best
  • a cut below
  • get (one's) kicks
  • get kicks
  • get one’s kicks
  • get one’s kicks from someone/something
  • get your kicks
  • mark (something) with a white stone
  • mark something with a white stone
  • red-headed stepchild
References in periodicals archive
The title is a woman's name, followed by the word "virgin." Jane the Virgin never stood a chance of being anything but a "guilty pleasure."
THE XX-FILES: Emily Nussbaum re-genders the Quality Television canon
GUILTY PLEASURE: Looking for great finds among bottom shelf wines
ARKANSAS 250 CONSTRUCTION & REAL ESTATE
Born out of a segment on London DJ Sean Rowley's radio show, where he selected songs people deemed as a "little bit cheesy or naff but were really great records", Guilty Pleasures launched as a club night back in 2004, and, in the years since, has become nothing short of a global phenomenon with events everywhere from Australia to Abu Dhabi, not to mention GP stages at some of the biggest festivals in the UK, like Glastonbury, Bestival and Latitude.
PLEASURE LAND; NIGHTLIFE/CLUBS WITH EMMA JOHNSON s S CLUB, DOLLY PARTON, THE SPICE GIRLS AND VANILLA ICE ... EMMA JOHNSON TALKS TO THE FOUNDER OF THE PARTY DEDICATED TO THOSE POP SONGS WE JUST CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF
Reality show guilty pleasure: "American Ninja Warrior" (2)
The 'Shore' thing a new wave of exotic subcultures takes hold of unscripted series
(2) The band Guilty Pleasure will perform at Holden Days, Aug.
Holden Days Aug. 24; Music, food, fun and more are on tap
Hotel Monaco's parent company, Kimpton, has a theme for every hotel it owns and Monaco's is "guilty pleasure," Elggren says.
Hotel Monaco Gets sophisticated renovation
This week's theme is Guilty Pleasures and Rylan Clark appears to be a guilty pleasure for many viewers.
Christopher flee; TV SPECIALS
Non-stop plot twists and melodrama make indulging in this guilty pleasure oh-so-satisfying.
Pretty Little Liars: The Complete Second Season
12 at Luckey's, sang a song that didn't seem so much a guilty pleasure considering how well it suited her.
GUILTY AS SUNG
Pride and Prejudice (again) - it's my guilty pleasure.
living it up with... Carmel Convery, Chair of O2's Think Big, Preston Brook
The guilty pleasure dinner you're craving right now is...
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A literary icon, Louisa May Alcott outdid her contemporaries by indulging in what is regarded as a guilty pleasure in the cultured society of her day.
Louisa May Alcott
By Christie Craig this one is pure guilty pleasure.
Weddings Can Be Murder
I very rarely write letters to the editor but this one, about your editorial in the September issue ("Guilty Pleasure"), I had to send.
Good, not great
With video clips, photographs and a rating system, this is a great guilty pleasure for anyone with a dark sense of humour
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