stone-deaf
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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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Nearing 83, he is stone-deaf, inclined to doze off in the middle of important conversations.
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Her dam, Home by Dark, had never raced and was stone-deaf to boot.
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Then I remembered that my shouting was in vain, for she was stone-deaf.
From My Brave and Gallant Gentleman A Romance of British Columbia by Watson, Robert
