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- adjective
house-trained
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Examples
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I'm not entirely house-broken and domestic life back home here gets a little tricky.
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Earth’s Cuddliest Heroes have ventured deep into the dangerous Savage Land, where ne’er has a house-broken animal 
escaped!
Marvel Comics for June 2009 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009
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Dems have been house-broken by the people who really run things.
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Those who are not house-broken are, at a minimum, paper-trained.
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Those who wanted social change, he wrote, could not join hands with the poor deluded house-broken Communist parties of the West who were mere Russian puppets, willing to jump through the hoops as soon as they get new orders.
Daimnation!: "Pas d'ennemis à gauche": The great failure of I.F. Stone 2006
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"Because you're rude, crude, and not even house-broken, " Joe told him, shaking his head in dismay.
The Chrome Borne Lackey, Mercedes 1993
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These I visited persistently, until my powder was perfected and had been proved efficacious for the capture of any ordinary house-broken phantom.
Humorous Ghost Stories Dorothy Scarborough 1906
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"Well, isn't he house-broken?" asked Warrington with gentle malice.
Half a Rogue Harold MacGrath 1901
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A modern Ulysses, house-broken, and an itinerant siren!
The Lure of the Mask Harold MacGrath 1901
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The inevitable toper, the perambulating musician, the old woman standing in a doorway, the gossips, the children, and the dog not house-broken may stand for the eternal Ostade, while the merry-makings of David Teniers are too much alike.
Promenades of an Impressionist James Huneker 1890
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