stone-deaf
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Nearing 83, he is stone-deaf, inclined to doze off in the middle of important conversations.
From Time Magazine Archive
Engineer Tran Chan Cha, 46, has steamed the Danang-Hue run since the days of the Indo-China war, has been blown up so often that today he is nearly stone-deaf.
From Time Magazine Archive
Almost stone-deaf, looking, in Virginia Woolf's phrase, like a ruined bust of Euripides, Meredith held court.
From Time Magazine Archive
Although Mrs. Moore recovered, her fever left her stone-deaf.
From Time Magazine Archive
I’ve been stone-deaf ever sin’ I came to take care o’ this house five year ago.
From In the King's Name The Cruise of the "Kestrel" by Fenn, George Manville
