stone-deaf
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Although Mrs. Moore recovered, her fever left her stone-deaf.
From Time Magazine Archive
Almost stone-deaf, looking, in Virginia Woolf's phrase, like a ruined bust of Euripides, Meredith held court.
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
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
If there be anything visible or audible hereabout, then are we stone-blind and stone-deaf.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde
