stone-deaf

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They are pictures to the eye of the blind, heavenly music to the stone-deaf.

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"I am stone-deaf," she said, "but have learned to read what people are saying from the movement of their lips."

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"Any time this club calls me I'm stone-deaf."

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He resembled Jemmy Quark in being almost stone-deaf, and had a further bond of union with the gardener of Balladhoo in being musical.

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Though scarcely short of stone-deaf, he was musical.

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