stone-deaf
[stohn-def]
Origin of stone-deaf
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Historical Examples of stone-deaf
Nature, to whose cries he has for so long turned a stone-deaf ear.
Lord Randolph ChurchillWinston Spencer Churchill
He spoke, if not to stone-deaf ears, to fast-deafening ears.
The Voyages of Pedro Fernandez de QuirosPedro Fernandez de Quiros
Poor Miss Wolfe had died some years before, and had been stone-deaf at that!
Old Friends and NewSarah Orne Jewett
But the hunchback was not stone-deaf—at least when he cared to hear.
The Tower of DagoMr Jkai
"I'd have him in Castle Rushen, the stone-deaf scoundrel," shouted Kinvig.
She's All the World to MeHall Caine
stone-deaf
usage
Use of this word to refer to people with serious hearing difficulties is potentially very offensive: preferred form: profoundly deaf
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