stone-deaf

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Although Mrs. Moore recovered, her fever left her stone-deaf.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

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Nearing 83, he is stone-deaf, inclined to doze off in the middle of important conversations.

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In stone-deaf Lady Strickland's Maltese garden a land mine blew the tail feathers off her prize peacock, blew Lady Strickland off her feet.

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I believed him stone-deaf till, on roaring with all the power of my lungs, he answered "Yes."

From The Frozen Pirate by Russell, W. Clark (William Clark)