deaf-and-dumb
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How to use deaf-and-dumb in a sentence
Before he meddled with it, it used to talk back like a mother-in-law, but now it was only fit for the deaf-and-dumb asylum.
Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories | Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)Goose-Skin runs after the trouvere, and imitating the gestures of the deaf-and-dumb, indicates that he pledges himself to silence.
The Iron Pincers | Eugne SueThis time Raissa had her little deaf-and-dumb sister with her.
The last column inquired whether the householder was “deaf-and-dumb, blind, imbecile, or lunatic?”
The Life of Florence Nightingale vol. 2 of 2 | Edward Tyas CookThis may be a reason why Sophy, with her deaf-and-dumb child in her arms, seemed to stand silent by me all through my nap.
Doctor Marigold | Charles Dickens
British Dictionary definitions for deaf-and-dumb
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unable to hear or speak
a deaf person without speech
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