Unpleasurable

a. (UN-¹ 7 b.)

1768–74.  Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1834), I. 373. Many of our waking hours pass irksome and insipid, unprofitable to others, and unpleasurable to ourselves.

1796.  Charlotte Smith, Marchmont, IV. 183. Unpleasurable sensations.

1860.  Ruskin, Mod. Paint., V. IX. xi. § 22. Let no technical labour be wasted on things useless or unpleasurable.

1879.  Mrs. A. W. Hunt, Basildon, II. xvi. 288. The visit, though a melancholy one, would not be wholly unpleasurable to him!