stone-deaf
Example Sentences
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Nearing 83, he is stone-deaf, inclined to doze off in the middle of important conversations.
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Although Mrs. Moore recovered, her fever left her stone-deaf.
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Almost stone-deaf, looking, in Virginia Woolf's phrase, like a ruined bust of Euripides, Meredith held court.
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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.
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Not being, in fact, stone-deaf, Waldo found himself obliged to make some response.
From Peak and Prairie From a Colorado Sketch-book by Moore, Emma G.
