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

Humans’ ability to feel pain and pleasure allows us to make progress and expand rights through abolitionist struggles, and to expand our moral circle to other biological species such as animal based on their suffering.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 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

“If something brings us mutual pleasure and harms no one, it’s a virtue.”

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

But he leans into the prison’s small pleasures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 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 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

He saw them toiling, saw them suffer and grow gray about things that to him did not seem worth the price—for money, small pleasures and trivial honors.

From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse

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

Last week he pleasured newshawks by presenting his weekly press conference with two enormous South Carolina melons, 3 ft. long and weighing, by report, 80 Ib. each.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Willie!" he cried, laughing outright in his pleasured surprise; "have you come to take me to Pittenloch?

From A Daughter of Fife by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

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

The people spend a good deal in pleasuring.

From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling