pleasureless

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Recent Examples of pleasureless Kobayashi basically rewrote the book on how to turn pleasureless gluttony into a profession. 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
  • Though many see data entry and painstakingly cleaning up mistakes that come through in digitization as a tedious slog, Aitkens is built differently.
    Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 14 July 2025
  • As seen only in the episodes, the major arcs of this season of Love Island have been tedious to the point of boredom.
    Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 9 July 2025
Adjective
  • The main reason Jacksonville is so boring, FinanceBuzz found, is that much of its population is thinly scattered across the city.
    Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 July 2025
  • GoPro has also dropped a white version and a forest green version if black is too boring for you.
    Scott Gilbertson, Wired News, 8 July 2025
Adjective
  • The dip bowl is slightly elevated, ensuring no chip gets too soggy.
    Kate McGregor, Architectural Digest, 10 July 2025
  • This will prevent the cheese crisp from getting soggy.
    Erin Hooker, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 July 2025
Adjective
  • In a sense, interacting with AI should not feel like a monotonous, copy and paste-type relationship, White says.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 2 July 2025
  • Conscripts have described it as monotonous, disorganized and often irrelevant to modern warfare: a combination of indoor lectures, hours of waiting around, and outdated ceremonial drills.
    Will Ripley, CNN Money, 21 June 2025
Adjective
  • There are hundreds of such passages throughout this 400-page book, which elevates the most prosaic of details, into hymn.
    Leigh Haber, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2025
  • His campaign poetry now faces the prosaic work of policy prioritization.
    Alexander C. Kaufman, The Atlantic, 16 June 2025
Adjective
  • Sami Zayn Street Fight: Rhea Ripley vs. Raquel Rodriguez Rhea Ripley remains one of WWE’s most beloved stars, but her never-ending feud with members of The Judgment Day is beyond tiresome.
    Blake Oestriecher, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
  • Being different or unique for the sake of attention getting is tiresome when an agent is reading dozens of queries at a time.
    Kate McKean June 20, Literary Hub, 20 June 2025
Adjective
  • Cape Florida Light The Cape Florida Light, in Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park on the tip of Key Biscayne, is the oldest lighthouse in the state.
    AFAR Media, AFAR Media, 11 July 2025
  • Patrick O’Connor, curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, told AP this may be Denver’s deepest and oldest find yet.
    Ashley J. DiMella, FOXNews.com, 11 July 2025
Adjective
  • But all the dark wood furniture and an uninteresting light fixture did little to make this an inviting space for dinner.
    Meghan Holloran, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 May 2025
  • There is a belief in some circles that an acrobatic save is a result of a goalie not properly playing his position, and the best goalies make simple, uninteresting saves because they’re positioned properly to cut off the angle of a shot.
    Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 13 Apr. 2025

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“Pleasureless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pleasureless. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.

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