stone-deaf

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

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.

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here sat Entwistle senior, stone-deaf, almost blind, but with his eighty-year-old wits still bright and birdlike.

From A Safety Match by Hay, Ian