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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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Health systems in the U.S. are struggling to contend with burnout, staffing shortages and razor thin margins, so companies are racing to develop AI tools that can streamline some of the industry’s more tedious administrative tasks.—
Ashley Capoot,
CNBC,
18 Jan. 2025
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Not on the practice field, but in the training room, going about the small tedious tasks of rehabbing a knee injury.—
Adam Grosbard,
Orange County Register,
17 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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His side’s domination of territory and possession, against vastly inferior opponents, has been branded boring by some supporters.—
Beren Cross,
The Athletic,
3 Feb. 2025
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Writing fiction no longer merely strikes him as boring.—
Hillary Kelly,
The Atlantic,
3 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Rest of market : But on the non-AI side, the rest of the market is dealing with some soggy action due to the uptick in the 10-year Treasury yield, refreshed concerns about President Donald Trump’s tariff pledges, and general market rotation the opposite way after a good rally on Monday.—
Jeff Marks,
CNBC,
28 Jan. 2025
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Laird-Clowes dedicated this soggy turd to Nick Drake.—
SPIN Editors,
SPIN,
21 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Much of our modern architecture is monotonous, repetitive and without character.—
Kay Johnson,
Twin Cities,
6 Feb. 2025
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What seemed like innovative movement mechanics in 3D is stifled by repetitive, confusing level design with its monotonous mazes.—
Joel Thayer,
Newsweek,
26 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The somewhat prosaic, light tone of most letters is partially motivated by the need to circumvent censorship.—
Francesca Mastruzzo (Tr. Elettra Pauletto),
The Dial,
14 Jan. 2024
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Conrad’s prosaic stories about striving to make it in the magazine industry paled in comparison to the loopy invented dramas of her two frenemies.—
Daniel D'Addario,
Variety,
13 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Loud, tiresome and half-baked, the off-kilter hilarity and attempts at sentimentality aren’t given much clearance to land, causing the emotional overtones to feel unearned.—
Courtney Howard,
Variety,
29 Jan. 2025
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Even after the online arguments about Beyoncé’s influences and ideology became tiresome, Cowboy Carter’s music remained grander and weirder than discourse could capture.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
17 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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For the Mad About the Boy premiere in London, the actor wore a fuchsia, strapless, vintage Balmain gown that was actually older than the Bridget Jones franchise itself, having debuted on the runway in 2000.—
Kathleen Walsh,
Glamour,
5 Feb. 2025
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Felipe Montemayor, a teammate of Hall of Famer Roberto Clemente in Pittsburgh and one of the oldest living Major League Baseball players, died Tuesday according to multiple reports out of Mexico.—
Anders Fogh Rasmussen,
Newsweek,
5 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Manager Gareth Southgate has been under pressure for the English being defensive and mostly uninteresting to watch, but the results have been good enough.—
Dan Santaromita,
The Athletic,
10 July 2024
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The path that was designed for her was uninteresting to her.—
Adam Moss,
Vulture,
19 Dec. 2024
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“Pleasureless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pleasureless. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.
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