Usage of "stone-deaf"

Totally deaf; unable to hear anything.

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Ús de stone-deaf en anglès

It won't wash. His honor'll be stone-deaf when ye tell him that. 
 The Man on the Box 

An old aunt left her the money because she was stone-deaf. 
 The Autobiography of a Quack, and The Case of George Dedlow 

Madness, stone-blind, stone-deaf-thatuttered no cry, and poured out no tears. 
 Agatha's Husband: A Novel 

Suppose you were stone-deaf, there would be no such thing as sound to you. 
 The Fairy-Land of Science 

She would, every few minutes, sink into a reverie, and appear to be stone-deaf. 
 Aylwin 

As I was stone-deaf in the right ear I always slept on the left side. 
 The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont 

To the one, she played ravishing strains, having first taken the precaution to make him stone-deaf. 
 Diary of a Pilgrimage 

She was stone-deaf, and in the manner of deaf people always shouted what she had to say. 
 Swirling Waters 

It affected me as if a stone-deaf person had suddenly turned and joined in a whispered conversation. 
 The New Machiavelli 

Miss Torsen was stone-deaf to his songs. 
 Look Back on Happiness 

The habit betrayed me very badly once with a woman called Mrs Blennerhasset who was stone-deaf and a lip-reader. 
 Travels With My Aunt 

I believed him stone-deaf till, on roaring with all the power of my lungs, he answered "Yes." 
 The Frozen Pirate 

For a moth who's stone-deaf 
 Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation 

Suppose all the accessories were away, could not one swear that the man was stone-deaf, beyond the reach of trumpet? 
 George Cruikshank 

The feeble-minded faun (the stone-deaf man) led the way to Mr. Pike's assistance, followed by Tony, the suicidal Greek. 
 The Mutiny of the Elsinore 

Mrs. Munroe proved to be a nice, motherly sort of a person, who, as it need hardly be said, was stone-deaf. 
 The Brick Moon, and Other Stories 

Significats de stone-deaf en anglès