unhearing

Example Sentences

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It’s as though the debate that Jo and Amy have about whether the stuff of their lives can be considered important—the “domestic joys and struggles”—has fallen on unhearing ears.

From Slate • Dec. 23, 2019

She lectures him on humanity, he teaches her how to fire a rifle, and their disagreements — Cat’s especially — sometimes slide into unhearing self-righteous harangue.

From Washington Post • Mar. 20, 2015

Carter, as if unhearing, continued to lecture his visitors on the virtues of the new "progress."

From Time Magazine Archive

But the defector plunged on, unheeding �in fact, unhearing.

From Time Magazine Archive

Contemptuous and unhearing the prisoners' piteous pleadings and lamentations, Hero Giles scowled upon them and deliberately turned his back.

From Astounding Stories, February, 1931 by Bates, Harry