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stone-deaf

[stohn-def] / ˈstoʊnˈdɛf /


ADJECTIVE
hard-of-hearing
Synonyms


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Nearing 83, he is stone-deaf, inclined to doze off in the middle of important conversations.

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

Her dam, Home by Dark, had never raced and was stone-deaf to boot.

From Time Magazine Archive

Not being, in fact, stone-deaf, Waldo found himself obliged to make some response.

From Peak and Prairie From a Colorado Sketch-book by Moore, Emma G.




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