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pleasureless|ˈplɛʒəlɪs| [f. pleasure n. + -less.] Devoid of pleasure; joyless.
1814in New Brit. Theatre III. 254 He might have become penitent, and deplored the enormity of his pleasureless vices. a1851Moir Chr. Musings vi, I told how life all pleasureless would be. 1872Geo. Eliot Middlem. lxxix, He himself was sliding into that pleasureless yielding to the small solicitations of circumstance. Hence ˈpleasurelessly adv.
1873R. Broughton Nancy II. 35, I wander objectlessly, pleasurelessly about with Vick. |