pleasure
noun
the state or feeling of being pleased.
pleasureless
-
a word derived from
pleasure.
Example Sentences
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In the show, rare glimpses of his inner turmoil come when he devours a lemon tart or a chocolate bar with a pleasureless intensity.
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2024
Both movies share the aesthetic of their characters’ similarly grim dedication to an ideal, and both offer the triumph and redemption of that pleasureless devotion.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 7, 2014
So let me at least use my hack-y little joke to sum up the major problem with this pleasureless Fox comedy, debuting tonight: it should be called We Hate Every Character on Our Own Sitcom.
From Time ● Nov. 30, 2011
The change from a life of fevered, though most miserable, excitement, to one of dull, pleasureless, and utterly uninteresting propriety, is one that can hardly be made without the assistance of binding control.
From The Vicar of Bullhampton by Trollope, Anthony
From being in a mood of simmering satisfaction with her lot she passed to the phase of being generously commiserating for those thousands around her whose lives and circumstances were dull, cheap, pleasureless, and empty.
From Beasts and Super-Beasts by Saki
