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

There are approximately 14 million such people in the U.S., and until very recently they have been the true silent minority, unheard as well as unhearing.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Floundering out of the drift he shook himself free of snow and, undaunted by his fall, went on skipping and pirouetting toward the cabin, while his companions shrieked mirthful comments into his apparently unhearing ears.

From Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College by Flower, Jessie Graham [pseud.]