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Recent Examples of pleasureless
Kobayashi basically rewrote the book on how to turn pleasureless gluttony into a profession.
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Washington Post, 1 July 2019
But the issue of female pleasure becomes the novel’s central, surprisingly pleasureless theme.
—Ron Charles | The Washington Post, oregonlive.com, 7 June 2019
Washington Post, 1 July 2019
But the issue of female pleasure becomes the novel’s central, surprisingly pleasureless theme.
—Ron Charles | The Washington Post, oregonlive.com, 7 June 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pleasureless
Adjective
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The big picture: Ad agencies can have a tedious and highly manual expense management process that's prone to human error.—
Lucinda Shen,
Axios,
25 Feb. 2025
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Ideally, containers should be within reach of your garden hose, which is less tedious than lugging heavy watering cans all over the place.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
25 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Then Saturday, Columbus sputtered to a disappointing (and boring) scoreless draw at home against the Houston Dynamo, one of the weakest MLS teams.—
Andrew King,
Axios,
11 Mar. 2025
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Literature that doesn’t contain its own version of this deal—literature that tries to freeze-frame reality instead of transmuting it—is often boring, even alienating.—
Lily Meyer,
The Atlantic,
11 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Eat well and drink plenty of water Forget settling for an iceberg salad, a soggy slice of terminal pizza, or a tiny bag of pretzels.—
Sophie Friedman,
AFAR Media,
4 Mar. 2025
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What could have been a true old-school King creeper ends up a bit of a soggy coming-of-age story: The movie never really recovers when Sutherland leaves.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
21 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Life doesn’t need to be a monotonous fog, nor is it supposed to be perpetually rapturously engaging.—
Allie Volpe,
Vox,
3 Mar. 2025
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People are less likely to feel threatened by a tool that tackles monotonous administrative tasks than one that drafts an entire document.—
Hunter Steele,
Forbes,
25 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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But here, its manifestation feels both vague and surprisingly prosaic.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
23 Feb. 2025
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In the face of that chilling, prosaic nightmare, all Perkins can do is laugh.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
21 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The giants, led by Goliath, are neat to behold, but Saul’s hallucinations quickly grow tiresome, the least interesting way to show a secure monarch succumbing to paranoia.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
27 Feb. 2025
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There is also a good deal of tiresome comic business between Modi and his similarly talented but unsuccessful friends, Maurice Utrillo (Bruno Gouery) and Chaim Soutine (Ryan McParland).—
Stephanie Bunbury,
Deadline,
24 Sep. 2024
Adjective
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The other part of him, the innie, is for all intents and purposes 2 1/2 years old.—
Gary Levin,
USA TODAY,
1 Mar. 2025
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Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson were the only players to hit that mark at 28 years old.—
Bobby Krivitsky,
Forbes,
1 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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In a multiverse of new and often uninteresting heroes, Cox is a life raft.—
Proma Khosla,
IndieWire,
5 Mar. 2025
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Our effort to identify the source of this anomaly is in part a detective story and part a cautionary tale about the importance of preserving seemingly uninteresting data.—
Viktor T. Toth,
IEEE Spectrum,
30 Nov. 2012
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“Pleasureless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pleasureless. Accessed 20 Mar. 2025.
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