pleasurable

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[ US /ˈpɫɛʒɝəbəɫ/ ]
[ UK /plˈɛʒəɹəbə‍l/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. affording satisfaction or pleasure
    good printing makes a book more pleasurable to read
    the company was enjoyable
    found her praise gratifying
    full of happiness and pleasurable excitement
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How To Use pleasurable In A Sentence

  • We spent them and traded them and frittered them away on drink and food and pleasurable company.
  • Overeating and drunkenness both violated social moral codes, although the latter appears to have been a much weightier transgression: intoxication is frequently listed among the serious crimes — "pleasurable living," adultery, theft — mentioned by Sahagún's informants. 47 Indigenous drinking practices also shocked Spaniards who had their own ideals of moderation when it came to alcohol consumption, a topic that we look at in Chapter 4. Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
  • Animals surely greet the best parts of their lives with enjoyment: and surely actively seek out pleasurable things. Times, Sunday Times
  • Still, this is certainly one of the most pleasurable new collections I've read this year.
  • The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself…. Laura (Riding) Jackson
  • If we can just let go and trust that things will work out they way they're supposed to, without trying to control the outcome, then we can begin to enjoy the moment more fully. The joy of the freedom it brings becomes more pleasurable than the experience itself. Goldie Hawn 
  • Under the pleasurable sense of freedom, thanks to the relaxation of the bit, with stately bearing and legs pliantly moving he dashes forward in his pride, in every respect imitating the airs and graces of a horse approaching other horses. On Horsemanship
  • He keeps the energy level high and the actors gay and carefree in a successful attempt to create a pleasurable musical.
  • But something so pleasurable hardly seemed like charity.
  • Having orgasms should be a pleasurable, thrilling experience… they make you breathless, your whole body becomes warmly ‘buzzed’, drained and satisfied.
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