unpleasurable
- a word derived from pleasurable.
Example Sentences
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Dr. Nadal, speaking for Team 1, said in an interview that “humans appear to use only one pleasure system to assess how pleasurable or unpleasurable a sensory experience is.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2018
The Cellphone Is Ready for Its Close-Up “The Canyons” — directed Paul Schrader, written by Bret Easton Ellis and starring Lindsay Lohan — is a dispiriting, unpleasurable work punctuated with flashes of vitalizing vulgarity.
From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2013
"For a time he walked through the world in a sustained, not unpleasurable awe generated by the habitual recognition, beside every circumstance and event of life, of its celestial correspondent."
From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by Hall, G. Stanley
It was a new sensation, not unpleasurable, and in thanking him she blushed.
From Septimus by Locke, William John
This suggestion did not carry with it the unpleasurable emotions which the Mandarin anticipated it would.
From The Wallet of Kai Lung by Bramah, Ernest
