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
He was young still, and in a few years he would look back on all his misery with a sadness in which there would be something not unpleasurable.
From Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
Through the growing, not unpleasurable, dizziness which came upon her thus, the man's voice made its way.
From The Transgression of Andrew Vane a novel by Guy Wetmore Carryl
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
