Definition
Something that brings pleasure but is considered taboo, unadvisable or lowbrow.
In Context
- "For the renowned sushi chef, it was a guilty pleasure to eat fish sticks drowned in tartar sauce."
- "Rock bands record classic albums, while pop stars create "guilty pleasure" singles. It's supposed to be self-evident: U2's entire oeuvre deserves respectful consideration, while a spookily seductive song by an R&B singer named Tweet can only be, in the smug words of a recent VH1 special, "awesomely bad.""
- "We all have guilty pleasures, don't we? During the summer of 1993, my guilty pleasure was watching Saved by the Bell reruns."
- "In postmodernism, mass culture is not so much a guilty pleasure as it is the white noise of our time."