pleasure

Throwing on “Real Housewives” or “Love Island” is a guilty pleasure for many of us after a tiring workday.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026

"We're not focused on people losing weight for the pleasure of it," Soriot told the media call.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

"What surprised me was the excitement of my fellow crew members when I told them I had the pleasure of flying my daughter and had the whole school trip on board," said Munns.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

Even in retirement, the film Frank Capra loved best — “It’s a Wonderful Life” — continued to bring him pleasure.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

For the pleasure of shorting 100 million dollars’ worth of New Century’s shares, Steve Eisman forked out $32 million a year.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

This is where “Sniff” becomes more than a history of vanished pleasures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

He said his parents were deeply religious and so strict that even simple pleasures such as singing were forbidden.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

Could there be a place, somewhere in this vast Earth, where Joan and Jean don’t have to sacrifice their codependent sisterly bond to enjoy life’s pleasures?

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

They talk to David Wallace Lockhart about their party’s failures, the route to indyref2 and guilty pleasures.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

Determining internal inconsistencies such as these is one of the minor pleasures of numeracy.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

Mayor Bill de Blasio let out a pleasured tweet of thanks, saluting the State Senate’s co-leaders, the Democrat Klein and that noted progressive, the Republican Dean Skelos.

From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2014

Schoolma'am Marie Campbell, who put together this book, was pleasured a heap to sit alistening to the olden tales and to write them down so they would keep.

From Time Magazine Archive

There the exiled King has pleasured himself with poker, backgammon, golf, visits to the El Patio nightclub, and a social whirl with some of the fastest climbers in Mexico.

From Time Magazine Archive

The newlyweds pleasured off to Italy, where Paul, who wanted to become a concert singer, studied.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Am I not to be pleasured by your company?”

From Peggy Owen at Yorktown by Lucy Foster Madison

The act set Yellowstone aside as “a pleasuring ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people.”

From Washington Post ● Feb. 25, 2022

"Heartbroken at the passing of Bert — a talented, kind young man who I had the pleasuring of working with numerous times on #LetsStayTogether," she tweeted.

From Fox News ● Nov. 9, 2020

They videotaped one year’s pleasuring, he says, and “one pig caught its hoof in a grate and had a little drop of blood on its hoof.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 6, 2011

In that year Congress designated a vast area in what are now the states of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming as a public "pleasuring ground."

From Time Magazine Archive

Just then we spied before us, on a little rise in the woodland, a hunting lodge that had been built by the Dunwoodies for their pleasuring when they and their friends hunted in the forest.

From Cedric, the Forester by Bernard Gay Marshall