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

"For a time he walked through the world in a sustained, not unpleasurable awe generated by the habitual recognition, beside every circumstance and event of life, of its celestial correspondent."

From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by Hall, G. Stanley

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

He was young still, and in a few years he would look back on all his misery with a sadness in which there would be something not unpleasurable.

From Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)