stone-deaf
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Although Mrs. Moore recovered, her fever left her stone-deaf.
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
Nearing 83, he is stone-deaf, inclined to doze off in the middle of important conversations.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her dam, Home by Dark, had never raced and was stone-deaf to boot.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is quite possible to be stone-deaf outwardly and yet hear most beautiful sounds within the brain.
From Music: An Art and a Language by Spalding, Walter Raymond
