stone-deaf
Example Sentences
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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
Although Mrs. Moore recovered, her fever left her stone-deaf.
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
Parson Dunage's mother at the Rectory, she's gone stone-deaf, and one may shout oneself hoarse.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend
