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Recent Examples of pleasureless
Kobayashi basically rewrote the book on how to turn pleasureless gluttony into a profession.
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Washington Post, 1 July 2019
But the issue of female pleasure becomes the novel’s central, surprisingly pleasureless theme.
—Ron Charles | The Washington Post, oregonlive.com, 7 June 2019
Washington Post, 1 July 2019
But the issue of female pleasure becomes the novel’s central, surprisingly pleasureless theme.
—Ron Charles | The Washington Post, oregonlive.com, 7 June 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pleasureless
Adjective
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Most of these events are tedious, rote, and often virtual.—
Maria Aspan,
NPR,
3 May 2025
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Yet managers and leaders often struggle with how to help their employees find more meaningful moments in their work, especially when the tasks they are assigned are boring, mundane and tedious.—
Rachel Pacheco,
Forbes.com,
1 May 2025
Adjective
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No more boring, irrelevant training modules—this is learning at the speed of work.—
Lisa Bodell,
Forbes.com,
29 Apr. 2025
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Some of this may happen under cover of darkness, but much of it happens in the open, under cover of arcane technocracy or boring bureaucracy.—
Andrew Marantz,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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As well as some soggy clothes, Saigo will take home $1.2 million from the $8 million purse for her triumph.—
Ben Church,
CNN Money,
28 Apr. 2025
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In Miami Beach, elevated roads with new flood pumps have averted dozens of floods in the previously soggy neighborhoods of Sunset Harbour and Hibiscus and Palm Islands.—
Alex Harris,
Miami Herald,
24 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The city’s turbulent 20th-century history is visible in the bullet holes on facades, the graffitied remains of the Berlin Wall and the monotonous residential blocks erected during the post-World War II reconstruction.—
Valeriya Safronova,
New York Times,
1 May 2025
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Even the most dedicated runners will admit that the sport can get monotonous at times.—
Jennifer Heimlich,
SELF,
23 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Boulder retains a bit of the exotic, which would not have been true of the more prosaic Salt Lake City or Cincinnati.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
27 Mar. 2025
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But instead of starting in the high-profile condo division, Jon Paul had to start on the more prosaic rental business.—
Robert Frank,
CNBC,
27 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Naturally, you’re being manipulated the whole time to keep you watching, as tiresome as the characters can become over the series’ several hours.—
Robert Lloyd,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Apr. 2025
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With the exemption, buyers don’t have to fill out tiresome customs paperwork or pay tariffs on small packages.—
Ramishah Maruf,
CNN Money,
11 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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With Venus retrograde in Aries starting on March 1 and affecting your career and outward expression, old insecurities about your worth and ambitions may surface.—
Meghan Rose,
Glamour,
1 May 2025
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The movie set, like all others, should have only had blanks on hand, but somehow a number of live rounds made their way to the location and one such bullet ended up in the gun that went off as Hutchins and Baldwin lined up a shot in an old church.—
Marco della Cava,
USA Today,
1 May 2025
Adjective
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Educating Entrepreneurs: Intrinsic Motivation And Engagement A significant hurdle in traditional educational contexts is fostering intrinsic motivation, particularly when students perceive assignments as irrelevant or uninteresting.—
Ray Ravaglia,
Forbes.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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This is incisive and great, getting at uninteresting people misappropriating culture and being lame ironists.—
Andy Hoglund,
EW.com,
9 Mar. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Pleasureless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pleasureless. Accessed 9 May. 2025.
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