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stone-deaf

adjective as in deaf

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  • deafened

adjective as in hard-of-hearing

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Example Sentences

When the tubes were being fixed into the three apertures he perceived that he had become suddenly stone deaf.

Gradually the horrible truth dawned upon me—I was stone deaf!

Are you stone deaf, that all their pretty speeches have been wasted on you?

When I spoke to the old woman, she told me that she was stone deaf.

The woman is nearly stone-deaf, and could not hear a word of the evidence.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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