stone-deaf
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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
Her dam, Home by Dark, had never raced and was stone-deaf to boot.
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
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
