stone-deaf

They are pictures to the eye of the blind, heavenly music to the stone-deaf.

"I am stone-deaf," she said, "but have learned to read what people are saying from the movement of their lips."

"Any time this club calls me I'm stone-deaf."

He resembled Jemmy Quark in being almost stone-deaf, and had a further bond of union with the gardener of Balladhoo in being musical.

Of course, Mr. Quirk, the schoolmaster, could read, but, as we have seen, he resembled Hommy-beg in being almost stone-deaf.