deaf

You hope you don’t work this hard at a thing for it to fall on deaf ears, and I know how microwavable music has been, but I believe the cream rises to the top.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

Solicitor-advocate Stephen Biggam, defending, said MacPherson was deaf and suffering from the eye condition macular degeneration.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

The report also highlighted the case of Alan Graham, who was deaf and was being treated for cancer at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

On a recent afternoon, Terekh arrived with her 12-year-old deaf dog Chuck and her bodyguards at an upscale Kyiv real-estate development that she had helped design.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

You would have to be stone deaf to sleep through it even in a feather bed.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

As it dawns on her how dangerous and unwieldy the company she wants to inherit actually is, Shiv no longer tries to make herself useful to her dad — and Logan’s ears turn deafer.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 22, 2021

“I’m getting more deafer and my wife is getting more louder,” he said with a laugh.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 24, 2017

This suggests a co-evolutionary struggle in which the mother’s body becomes deafer as the offspring becomes louder.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 27, 2011

He was aware of being able to see increasingly clearly, and as I've got deafer I've noticed that I'm using my eyes better.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 2, 2010

Old Gamgee did not look much older, but he was a little deafer.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

But even the deafest and most stay-at-home began to hear queer tales; and those whose business took them to the borders saw strange things.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

When Solomon Flint returned home that night he found Miss Lillycrop seated beside old Mrs Flint, shouting into her deafest ear.

From Post Haste by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

The jackal is a social kind of dog, and a pack of hungry or excited jackals can howl in notes fit to pierce the ears of the deafest.

From Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. by Adam White

Apparently he was the deafest retainer that a peeress of the realm ever left in charge of a princely pile.

From The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett

To a piteous plea to remain and enjoy the old man's wealth, he turned the deafest of ears.

From Trifles for the Christmas Holidays by H. S. Armstrong