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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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What used to take hours, days, or weeks, or be accomplished with tedious workflows and expensive SaaS tools, can now be achieved within minutes.—
Rachel Wells,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2025
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The biggest downside of the experience is that some of the admin tools can be tedious to manage.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
17 June 2025
Adjective
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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
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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
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The land was low, soft and often soggy — hardly ideal for building, said Jack Gary, Colonial Williamsburg’s executive director of archaeology.—
Ben Finley,
Los Angeles Times,
19 June 2025
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After three soggy races in light winds on Saturday, three more fleet races for the 12-boat competition offered plenty of opportunity for moving up or down the leaderboard.—
Andrew Rice,
New York Times,
9 June 2025
Adjective
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Even the center's manager admitted the work is pretty monotonous.—
Aowen Cao,
NPR,
18 June 2025
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Human judgment will still matter critically, but it will be applied selectively in moments of ambiguity or high risk, rather than wasted on the monotonous tasks that currently consume most of the working day.—
Adam Bowen,
Forbes.com,
5 June 2025
Adjective
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His campaign poetry now faces the prosaic work of policy prioritization.—
Alexander C. Kaufman,
The Atlantic,
16 June 2025
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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
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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
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Mike’s kvetching gets tiresome, but the movie zooms along with whiplash speed.—
Will Leitch,
Vulture,
19 June 2025
Adjective
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The departing older president, the incoming younger Kennedy.—
Dr. Richard Fichman,
Hartford Courant,
29 June 2025
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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
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The new Snow White represents progressive mediocrity — the antagonism between Snow White and her evil stepmother (Gal Gadot) is bland and uninteresting after the remarkable modern version White as Snow that starred Lou de Laâge and Isabelle Huppert.—
Armond White,
National Review,
26 Mar. 2025
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The first act is genuinely atrocious, a mess of story threads revolving around an uninteresting villain in the AI Entity that feels far too downbeat and sad for this franchise.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
23 May 2025
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“Pleasureless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pleasureless. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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