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stone-deaf

[stohn-def] / ˈstoʊnˈdɛf /


ADJECTIVE
hard-of-hearing
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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.

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Being stone-deaf, Cousin Amy Dawes took no part in conversation except what she herself could contribute.

From The Side Of The Angels A Novel by Basil King




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