guilty pleasure

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guilty pleasure

noun guilty pleasures

  1. idiomatic Something that brings pleasure but is considered taboo, unadvisable or lowbrow. For the renowned sushi chef, it was a guilty pleasure to eat fish sticks drowned in tartar sauce.

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noun something that brings pleasure but is considered taboo

Españolplacer culpable, gusto culposo
日本語悪趣味 akushumi
中文惡趣味 /恶趣味 èqùwèi, 負罪的快感 /负罪的快感 fùzuì de kuàigǎn, 怪癖 guàipǐ, 俗人之樂 /俗人之乐 súrén zhī lè
Portuguêsprazer culpado
Françaispéché mignon
Deutschheimliches Vergnügen, lasterhaftes Vergnügen, billiges Vergnügen, sündhafte Freude, Laster, sündhaftes Vergnügen
עבריתגילטי פלז׳ר gílti plézher

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@misc{guilty_pleasure_2026,
  title = {guilty pleasure},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/guilty%20pleasure},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}