pleasurable
adjective
unpleasurable
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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 G. Stanley Hall
This excitement may have a pleasurable or an unpleasurable quality, and we cannot understand just what is back of pleasure and pain in this sense.
From The Foundations of Personality by Abraham Myerson
This hint of the contrary gave her a strong sensation, not altogether unpleasurable.
From Archibald Malmaison by Julian Hawthorne
