Did you perchance mean one of these? Hathor, bathos
Etymologies
- Blend of hate and pathos. According to journalist Alex Heard, this word was coined in 1985 when he was searching for a word to describe the "cringe-y feeling you get when celebs go AWOL" and attended a Super Bowl party where he and another guest, then-Bob Dole press aide Scott Richardson, exchanged ideas until they came up with "hathos." The word's first apparent use in print was in an essay by Heard, published in the The Washington Post on May 17, 1987. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Douglas LeBlanc was the GetReligionista who was officially in charge of posting "hathos" alerts linked to mainstream media coverage of religion news.”
“If I'm getting this "hathos" thing (and I'm not clear that I am) wouldn't "Santa Baby" sung by ANYONE from Eartha Kitt to Taylor Swift be an example?”
“He's still out there, lurking, and he sent us an alert this morning for the first hathos - A pleasurable sense of loathing, or a loathing sense of pleasure, aroused by certain schlocky, schmaltzy or just - plain-bad show-business personalities: "Hearing the audience applaud when Dr. Joyce Brothers told Merv Griffin that, aside from being a brilliant comedienne, Charo is a 'genius on the classical guitar' filled me with hathos.”
“As for hathos-inducing Christmas carols, they include, but are not limited to, "Grandma got run over by a reindeer",”
“Compliments of the season, Mr. Covarrubias. hathos, a term for attraction to something one finds repellant.”
“I'm also indebted to Mr. Covarrubias for a new word, hathos attraction to something one finds repellant.”
“For any baseball fan, the name of Pete Rose generates an instant reaction, ranging from gut-level hathos, to naked contempt, to misplaced adolation.”
“Thomas Kinkade movies, Kirk Cameron (Oh, the hathos!), and hot chicks with d-bags?”
“K’dackis’s appeal went beyond mere hathos and anger.”
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“He's also more commonly known to regular readers of Buffalo Pundit's blog as a desperate attention whore with a burning hathos for our site.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hathos’.
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Misanthropic
Lovecraft, Lovecraftian, bete noire
Lovecraftian, bête noire, festinate, hathos, misogynist, foredoom, decorticate, malingerer, nemophilist, mendicant, pendragon, stultify and 27 more...
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Nihilarity
Absurdity, dark art, radicalism, anger, tragic irony, and nothingness. Tee-hee!
nihilism, dada, futurism, rayonism, postmodernity, deconstruction, surrealism, existentialism, reductio ad absurdum, discordianism, operation mindfuck, amorality and 127 more...
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S-word variations
schadendouche, shad-enfreude, epicaricacy, schmuckenfreude, spitzenfreude, schadenfreudgeon, schadenfreudgeona..., shadenfaspegengel..., schadenfreudian slip, craudestopper, hathos, schagdenfreude and 10 more...
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Future of TV
A glossary of terms relating to the future of TV
bitcom, cot potato, dramality, dramedy, fanfic, frankenbite, glurge, irritainment, hammock, hathos, lifecasting, mobisode and 15 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for hathos.
rolig Is this a portmanteau for hate + pathos (or bathos)? Dec 19, 2008
bilby So where are all the s-word listers for this one? Aug 23, 2008
whichbe (fr. WordSpy, n.) Feelings of pleasure derived from hating someone or something. May 15, 2008