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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
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Much like 2014’s Ouija, a group of tedious teens unleash an evil entity haunting a specific set of tarot cards.Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 17 Dec. 2024
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Automate Repetitive Tasks Companies can integrate AI to automate repetitive tasks like invoice processing, reducing errors and freeing employees from tedious work.Expert Panel®, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
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But to play to that dichotomy is a tightrope walk: lean too far one way and Indy becomes boring, either as too normal or a superhero.Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 10 Dec. 2024
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Eggnog Eggnog is a hard sell because most people have only had the bad kind, those boring and occasionally gross cartons that line the dairy section of the supermarket every December.Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 9 Dec. 2024
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A week after winning an aesthetically pleasing, high-scoring shootout against a really good Buffalo Bills team, the Rams won ugly (very ugly) against the 49ers at soggy Levi's Stadium.Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2024
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Market moves: Wall Street was having another soggy session.Jeff Marks, CNBC, 13 Dec. 2024
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Used appropriately, these features can make your presentation dynamic and keep it from feeling monotonous and boring.William Arruda, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
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This oversized pullover has large horizontal stripes that break up the often monotonous style of a traditional knit sweater.Michelle Rostamian, People.com, 14 Oct. 2024
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Such shots reproduce García Márquez’s knack for wedding the ordinary to the extraordinary, and turning prosaic developments into enduring fables.Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2024
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Much as White had on his farm, Stan grows beyond the limiting confines of the consciousness of the townspeople, transcending the prosaic nature of the reality around him.Ben Woollard, JSTOR Daily, 4 Dec. 2024
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Make Listening a Game Your child spends a significant portion of their day being talked to—and that is likely tiresome for them.Jeannette Moninger, Parents, 3 Dec. 2024
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KitchenAid 9-Speed Digital Hand Mixer with Turbo Beater II Stirring can be tiresome, especially when there’s large amounts or chunky ingredients.Alyssa Grabinski, People.com, 29 Nov. 2024
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The show skips across the decades, dramatizing the interviews an older Dolours (Maxine Peake) did for a Boston College oral history of the Troubles, which were taped with the promise that they would be released only after participants’ deaths.Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
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By contrast, the prospect of citizenships and alliances—and perhaps conquests or crusades—structured around the opinions, beliefs, and subjective identities of ordinary people in times of peace would require a new (or very old) conception of empire.Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2024
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Mommy did not travel all the way to Montreal in the frigid tundra to be passive and uninteresting.Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 6 Dec. 2024
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At conventions, she was relegated to uninteresting panels.Meghan Herbst, WIRED, 26 Nov. 2024
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“Pleasureless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pleasureless. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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