stone-deaf
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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
Almost stone-deaf, looking, in Virginia Woolf's phrase, like a ruined bust of Euripides, Meredith held court.
From Time Magazine Archive
Although Mrs. Moore recovered, her fever left her stone-deaf.
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 Laurence Hutton
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