Pleasant
Pleasant adjective - Affording pleasure; being in harmony with your taste or likings.
Usage example: pleasant sensations
Sore
Sore adjective - Feeling or showing anger.
Usage example: promise not to get sore if I tell you what I really think of your new hairstyle?
Nearby Words: soreness, soring, sored
Both words in one sentence
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Sore Loser: Though to be fair, being slapped with a fish isn't exactly a pleasant forfeit.
Source: Lets Play / Strippin -
Villainous Valor is a similar trope, but with the villain being defiant to the end while Sore Loser is arguably a much less pleasant version of this.
Source: Defiant to the End -
Sore Loser: Silvio is not a pleasant guy to be around when he's losing at poker.
Source: Series / The Sopranos
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