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stone-deaf

[stohn-def] / ˈstoʊnˈdɛf /


ADJECTIVE
hard-of-hearing
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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

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

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

Although Mrs. Moore recovered, her fever left her stone-deaf.

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