pleasureless

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Recent Examples of pleasureless Kobayashi basically rewrote the book on how to turn pleasureless gluttony into a profession. 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
  • Instead of the tedious tasks, many AI tools target high-level strategy, marketing or client-relationship work; tasks that employees want to keep human.
    Moin Roberts-Islam, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
  • These services actively monitor and submit removal requests to hundreds of data broker websites, saving you hours of tedious work.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2025
Adjective
  • This is worlds away from that boring deli chicken sandwich, while still being easy enough to whip up on the busiest of days.
    Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 28 June 2025
  • The contract’s scope of work includes the single bore tunnel, station entrances and exits, the excavation of underground stations and the procurement of a tunnel boring machine.
    Grace Hase, Mercury News, 27 June 2025
Adjective
  • That year producers staged the show on a remote and soggy corner of Vancouver Island, where water, food, and shelter were in abundance.
    Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 27 June 2025
  • In detention, we were given soggy, wet food—even the bread would come wet.
    Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 June 2025
Adjective
  • Even the center's manager admitted the work is pretty monotonous.
    Aowen Cao, NPR, 18 June 2025
  • Like you, or, sorry, like the woman in the book, the ordinary feels so uninspiring, so monotonous.
    Susan Choi, Literary Hub, 5 June 2025
Adjective
  • His campaign poetry now faces the prosaic work of policy prioritization.
    Alexander C. Kaufman, The Atlantic, 16 June 2025
  • These prosaic details, coming three pages from the end, are shockingly poignant in their invocation of a familiar accouterment of upper-middle-class adolescence.
    Daphne Merkin, New York Times, 18 May 2025
Adjective
  • Being different or unique for the sake of attention getting is tiresome when an agent is reading dozens of queries at a time.
    Kate McKean June 20, Literary Hub, 20 June 2025
  • Mike’s kvetching gets tiresome, but the movie zooms along with whiplash speed.
    Will Leitch, Vulture, 19 June 2025
Adjective
  • The departing older president, the incoming younger Kennedy.
    Dr. Richard Fichman, Hartford Courant, 29 June 2025
  • While older South Koreans remain most at risk, suicide is now the leading cause of death for those aged 10 to 39.
    Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 June 2025
Adjective
  • But all the dark wood furniture and an uninteresting light fixture did little to make this an inviting space for dinner.
    Meghan Holloran, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 May 2025
  • There is a belief in some circles that an acrobatic save is a result of a goalie not properly playing his position, and the best goalies make simple, uninteresting saves because they’re positioned properly to cut off the angle of a shot.
    Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 13 Apr. 2025

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“Pleasureless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pleasureless. Accessed 9 Jul. 2025.

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