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
In stone-deaf Lady Strickland's Maltese garden a land mine blew the tail feathers off her prize peacock, blew Lady Strickland off her feet.
From Time Magazine Archive
Reason: since his widowed mother had to work, he had been raised mostly by a stone-deaf grandmother who rarely spoke to him and was afraid to let him outside to play.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her dam, Home by Dark, had never raced and was stone-deaf to boot.
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"I am stone-deaf," she said, "but have learned to read what people are saying from the movement of their lips."
From The Lost Heir by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
