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

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)

It was a new sensation, not unpleasurable, and in thanking him she blushed.

From Septimus by Locke, William John

This suggestion did not carry with it the unpleasurable emotions which the Mandarin anticipated it would.

From The Wallet of Kai Lung by Bramah, Ernest