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
One of the most familiar cases of removal is the gelding or desexed horse.
From Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family by Knight, Melvin Moses
