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 suggestion did not carry with it the unpleasurable emotions which the Mandarin anticipated it would.

From The Wallet of Kai Lung by Bramah, Ernest

Margaret seated comfortably on the ferry boat, her little feet crossed so discreetly that only a glimpse of the yellow fluff beneath was visible, was conscious of a not unpleasurable exhilaration.

From The Butterfly House by Meylan, Paul Julian

This is an extreme case; but the ultimate effect of parasitism is always a paralysis of the will and an inability to compel oneself into any course of action for the moment unpleasurable and exhaustive.

From Woman and Labour by Schreiner, Olive