desexed

Example Sentences

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Moreover, large numbers of individual dogs will be unable to reproduce because they have been desexed, and so even if individuals manage to survive, they will be at a genetic dead end.

From Salon • Jan. 22, 2022

Perhaps that’s why the movie’s Mark has been so thoroughly desexed, with Carell playing him as a soft-voiced naïf who’s barely more than an emotional child.

From Slate • Dec. 19, 2018

Are parents just tame animals, housebroken and desexed?

From New York Times • Oct. 2, 2017

Beneath the dignity of his tombstone, desexed, sanitized and dead, John could be a father my kids could really respect.

From New York Times • Jun. 13, 2017

Suppose this horse was desexed at two years old.

From Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family by Knight, Melvin Moses