ADJECTIVE
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(of pets) trained to urinate and defecate outside or in a special place
housebroken pets
`house-trained' is chiefly British
How To Use house-trained In A Sentence
- However, they must have made the house even more dirty than it usually would have been as none of these animals would have been house-trained.
- The animals can be house-trained and, claim experts, are even capable of understanding basic instructions such as ‘no’.
- I can confirm from personal knowledge and with full evidence to support the charge -- he is a scoundrel, a blaggard and a proven liar with all the ethics of a semi-house-trained polecat. Martin Lewis: Murdoch Scandal: New Arrest Heralds US Peril for Murdoch
- His manners were appalling before he got married, but his wife soon got him house-trained.
- Even the wild Finnish accordionist sounds suitably house-trained in this company.
- Harry knows Ryan personally and will vouch for the fact that he is totally house-trained and understands the need to keep darkrooms spotless!
- An impatient owner complained that their eight-week old puppy was not house-trained yet and another complained: ‘Our dog gets jealous when we sit together and she hurts my legs when she wags her tail.’
- `house-trained' is chiefly British
- He said: ‘He must be well house-trained because he wouldn't go inside.
- She seems rather more house-trained than her predecessor, Lucy, who once threw up in the middle of a debate.