stone-deaf

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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

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is quite possible to be stone-deaf outwardly and yet hear most beautiful sounds within the brain.

From Music: An Art and a Language by Spalding, Walter Raymond