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

Yes, I seem to remember something of the sort, and with a not unpleasurable emotion.

From The Transgression of Andrew Vane a novel by Carryl, Guy Wetmore

This excitement may have a pleasurable or an unpleasurable quality, and we cannot understand just what is back of pleasure and pain in this sense.

From The Foundations of Personality by Myerson, Abraham

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