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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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When the ice eventually thawed, evolutionary activity picked up, and things weren’t so boring anymore.David Bressan, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
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Nestled into a joke about how SNL is too boring if the rumor is true that everyone is on cocaine, Fleming hones in on Jost’s particular brand of bland mundanity.Vulture Staff, Vulture, 26 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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Even teaming up with Hwang Jun-ho (Wi Ha-joon), the police detective who discovered that the Front Man was his own brother last season, to track down the island where the competition took place yields a monotonous search.Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 26 Dec. 2024
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An automation tool could churn out similar, monotonous content and reports every time.Vaibhav Kakkar, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
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Threading throughout the annual scientific conference of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) is attention to the impact of more prosaic use of words.Clara Germani, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Nov. 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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However, come the third or fourth snowstorm of the season, shoveling by hand gets tiresome.Christopher Murray, Fox News, 10 Dec. 2024
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The tiresome snobbery of the vinyl mafia might have convinced you that the compact disc, first introduced in Japan in October 1982 and the rest of the world in March 1983, was dead and buried.Jesse Fink, SPIN, 28 Nov. 2024
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Perhaps the most striking comes from the Baltimore Experience Corps trial, a large experiment in which adults age 60 and older were randomly assigned to either volunteer at elementary schools or be put on a waiting list.Maria Godoy, NPR, 25 Dec. 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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The path that was designed for her was uninteresting to her.Adam Moss, Vulture, 19 Dec. 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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“Pleasureless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pleasureless. Accessed 2 Jan. 2025.
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