stone-deaf
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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
Her dam, Home by Dark, had never raced and was stone-deaf to boot.
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
I’ve been stone-deaf ever sin’ I came to take care o’ this house five year ago.
From In the King's Name The Cruise of the "Kestrel" by George Manville Fenn
