unpleasurable

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

This hint of the contrary gave her a strong sensation, not altogether unpleasurable.

From Archibald Malmaison by Hawthorne, Julian

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 Carryl, Guy Wetmore

"For a time he walked through the world in a sustained, not unpleasurable awe generated by the habitual recognition, beside every circumstance and event of life, of its celestial correspondent."

From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by Hall, G. Stanley