stone-deaf
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Although Mrs. Moore recovered, her fever left her stone-deaf.
From Time Magazine Archive
Almost stone-deaf, looking, in Virginia Woolf's phrase, like a ruined bust of Euripides, Meredith held court.
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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.
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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.
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There's only my old man here, an' you needn't stand 'pon ceremony wi' he: for he's stone-deaf an' totelin'.
From Noughts and Crosses Stories, Studies and Sketches by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
