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love-hate

a. (context of a relationship English) Involving feelings of both love and hate, often simultaneously.

Usage examples of "love-hate".

Most had to do with their mother, Rebecca, with whom Cindy had always had a love-hate relationship.

Victorian writer and critic Clive Bell's relationship with Sickert was one of mutual love-hate, and Bell quipped that on any given day Sickert might be John Bull, Voltaire, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Pope, a cook, a dandy, a swell, a bookmaker, a solicitor.

Over the past weeks, Margo had developed a love-hate relationship with price guides.

She shopped, began a love-hate relationship with the Nautilus equipment in the health club, and generally fought off boredom.

She turned back to him, said abruptly, 'I think Dom had a love-hate relationship with Tony.

His impression the impression of a trained psychiatrist is that she is eminently sane in spite of a neurotic love-hate relationship with her father.

Really, Bill knew his talent wasn't the issue but he had this ongoing love-hate relationship with performing and he seemed continually to search for reasons to get away from it, in favor of a more consistent existence, only to be pulled back in almost immediately.

Children often develop a love-hate relationship with him, deeply felt ambivalence.

Perec, who has a love-hate relationship with the French media, has made being late an art and was true to form this meet.

My guess is that they have a sort of love-hate relationship with whatever gods they worship.