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stone-deaf

[stohn-def] / ˈstoʊnˈdɛf /


ADJECTIVE
hard-of-hearing
Synonyms


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Almost stone-deaf, looking, in Virginia Woolf's phrase, like a ruined bust of Euripides, Meredith held court.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

Nearing 83, he is stone-deaf, inclined to doze off in the middle of important conversations.

From Time Magazine Archive

He is stone-deaf, invariably, when he is told to come back.

From A Boy I Knew and Four Dogs by Hutton, Laurence




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