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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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While some players believe that overworlds are tedious and archaic game designs that only add unnecessary filler in between traveling to different destinations, Expedition 33 avoids this problem by placing optional dungeons on the overworld.—
George Yang,
Rolling Stone,
23 Apr. 2025
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Properties can be difficult to source, expensive to evaluate, and tedious to manage.—
Fred Hubler,
Forbes.com,
22 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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No more boring, irrelevant training modules—this is learning at the speed of work.—
Lisa Bodell,
Forbes.com,
29 Apr. 2025
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Some of this may happen under cover of darkness, but much of it happens in the open, under cover of arcane technocracy or boring bureaucracy.—
Andrew Marantz,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Try to keep furniture away from messy trees that drop sap, leaves, or berries, and steer clear of soggy spots in the yard.—
Quincy Bulin,
Southern Living,
22 Apr. 2025
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These plants can quickly develop root rot in soggy soil.—
Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
18 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The city’s turbulent 20th-century history is visible in the bullet holes on facades, the graffitied remains of the Berlin Wall and the monotonous residential blocks erected during the post-World War II reconstruction.—
Valeriya Safronova,
New York Times,
1 May 2025
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Even the most dedicated runners will admit that the sport can get monotonous at times.—
Jennifer Heimlich,
SELF,
23 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Boulder retains a bit of the exotic, which would not have been true of the more prosaic Salt Lake City or Cincinnati.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
27 Mar. 2025
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But instead of starting in the high-profile condo division, Jon Paul had to start on the more prosaic rental business.—
Robert Frank,
CNBC,
27 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Naturally, you’re being manipulated the whole time to keep you watching, as tiresome as the characters can become over the series’ several hours.—
Robert Lloyd,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Apr. 2025
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With the exemption, buyers don’t have to fill out tiresome customs paperwork or pay tariffs on small packages.—
Ramishah Maruf,
CNN Money,
11 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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With Venus retrograde in Aries starting on March 1 and affecting your career and outward expression, old insecurities about your worth and ambitions may surface.—
Meghan Rose,
Glamour,
1 May 2025
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An older player was driving the younger ones and pretended to get lost in an isolated section of the county, where a group of accomplices emerged in masks and black clothing, imitating an abduction with at least one gun and one knife, according to the district attorney.—
Emily Mae Czachor,
CBS News,
1 May 2025
Adjective
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Their drama — seen in multiple flashbacks, as well as the tension that exists in the present day — is deeply uninteresting.—
Nina Metz,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Apr. 2025
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With the exception of the two men who provide the film with its ridiculously unexciting love triangle, everyone in Alex’s orbit is one-dimensional and uninteresting.—
Courtney Howard,
Variety,
28 Mar. 2025
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“Pleasureless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pleasureless. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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