Love-hate

//ˌlʌvˈheɪt//

"Love-hate" in a Sentence (14 examples)

Freud developed the love-hate relationship between parents and child as the Oedipus complex.

Lao Gan Ma and I have a love-hate relationship.

The most accurate reflection of my feelings is that of a love-hate relationship.

My grandmother has a love-hate relationship with computers.

We Danes have a special love-hate relationship with our Swedish neighbors.

I have a love-hate relationship with that trite yet colorful book.

Israel has a love-hate relationship with the Jewish settlers.

She has always had a kind of love-hate relationship with the Berber language.

Tom has a love-hate relationship with his job.

Tom and Mary have a love-hate relationship.

The krogan have had a love-hate relationship with varren for millennia, alternately fighting them for territory and embracing them as treasured companions.

I loathe reviews in which a critic claims to have love-hate feelings about a work of art. It’s a way of having no opinion at all. But I love and hate “Taipei.”

Still, the movie [Ralph Breaks the Internet] manages to locate some gentle satire in our culture's love-hate relationship with the internet. At one point, Ralph must attain a certain level of viral popularity, assisted by the BuzzFeed-esque content guru Yesss (Taraji P. Henson), and the movie is savvy about how accidental spikes in fame can turn into cynical algorithm manipulation.

[…]Eric got to act out his resentment while also hating himself, really love-hating himself, and he got to do it while masquerading as a warrior for the less fortunate!

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