stone-deaf
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Reason: since his widowed mother had to work, he had been raised mostly by a stone-deaf grandmother who rarely spoke to him and was afraid to let him outside to play.
From Time Magazine Archive
Engineer Tran Chan Cha, 46, has steamed the Danang-Hue run since the days of the Indo-China war, has been blown up so often that today he is nearly stone-deaf.
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Nearing 83, he is stone-deaf, inclined to doze off in the middle of important conversations.
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Almost stone-deaf, looking, in Virginia Woolf's phrase, like a ruined bust of Euripides, Meredith held court.
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The woman was either stone-deaf, or pretended to be so; but at all events she gave me no satisfaction, and I remounted and rode away.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 by Various
