stone-blind
Americanadjective
adjective
Synonym Usage
See blind.
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of stone-blind
1325–75; Middle English (north) staneblynde; see stone, blind
Example Sentences
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The late, great Joseph Pulitzer, founder of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, suffered all his life from weak eyes, was stone-blind when he died in 1911.
From Time Magazine Archive
By the second week, everyone knew perfectly well what was going on, yet everyone tried to look as if they were stone-blind to the changes in Jo’s face.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
Yet, when Lottie Drugg was stone-blind, the expression of her eyes had been lovely.
From How Janice Day Won by Helen Beecher Long
Just the wrong red and yellow, unless you happen to wear blue spectacles; and if you'd ever seen them saying good-bye of a morning you'd have wished you were stone-blind.
From Witching Hill by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
His name was Pether—N. Congleton Pether; he was of Jewish extraction, and he was stone-blind.
From The Recipe for Diamonds by Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne
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