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
"I hardly thought it of Mellony," he added in not unpleasurable reflection, "nor yet of Ira."
From A Christmas Accident and Other Stories by Annie Eliot Trumbull
We mentioned before that mischief cannot seldom be traced back to earlier experiences with a strong unpleasurable feeling.
From Psychotherapy by Hugo Münsterberg
This hint of the contrary gave her a strong sensation, not altogether unpleasurable.
From Archibald Malmaison by Julian Hawthorne
