stone-deaf
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Almost stone-deaf, looking, in Virginia Woolf's phrase, like a ruined bust of Euripides, Meredith held court.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her dam, Home by Dark, had never raced and was stone-deaf to boot.
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
Nearing 83, he is stone-deaf, inclined to doze off in the middle of important conversations.
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He is stone-deaf, invariably, when he is told to come back.
From A Boy I Knew and Four Dogs by Laurence Hutton
