love-hate

adjective

: feeling or showing a mixture of love and hate

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At 13 months apart, the two siblings have a love-hate relationship. Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Oct. 2025 It's become a love-hate thing with Halo fans. Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Oct. 2025 Even the most level-headed among them can have a love-hate relationship with the tech giant. Jason Del Rey, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2025 And his relationship with Trump has long been contradictory, or, at least, love-hate. Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for love-hate

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“Love-hate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/love-hate. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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