unhearing

Example Sentences

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It’s as though the debate that Jo and Amy have about whether the stuff of their lives can be considered important—the “domestic joys and struggles”—has fallen on unhearing ears.

From Slate • Dec. 23, 2019

She lectures him on humanity, he teaches her how to fire a rifle, and their disagreements — Cat’s especially — sometimes slide into unhearing self-righteous harangue.

From Washington Post • Mar. 20, 2015

But the defector plunged on, unheeding �in fact, unhearing.

From Time Magazine Archive

There are approximately 14 million such people in the U.S., and until very recently they have been the true silent minority, unheard as well as unhearing.

From Time Magazine Archive

Turned from them in his chair he put out his hand for his tea and stared before him, as if unseeing and unhearing, while he drank it.

From Amabel Channice by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas