Totally deaf; unable to hear anything.
1 It won't wash. His honor'll be stone - deaf when ye tell him that.
2 An old aunt left her the money because she was stone - deaf .
3 Madness, stone-blind, stone-deaf-thatuttered no cry, and poured out no tears.
4 Suppose you were stone - deaf , there would be no such thing as sound to you.
5 She would, every few minutes, sink into a reverie, and appear to be stone - deaf .
6 As I was stone - deaf in the right ear I always slept on the left side.
7 To the one, she played ravishing strains, having first taken the precaution to make him stone - deaf .
8 She was stone - deaf , and in the manner of deaf people always shouted what she had to say.
9 It affected me as if a stone - deaf person had suddenly turned and joined in a whispered conversation.
10 Miss Torsen was stone - deaf to his songs.
11 The habit betrayed me very badly once with a woman called Mrs Blennerhasset who was stone - deaf and a lip-reader.
12 I believed him stone - deaf till, on roaring with all the power of my lungs, he answered "Yes."
13 For a moth who's stone - deaf
14 Suppose all the accessories were away, could not one swear that the man was stone - deaf , beyond the reach of trumpet?
15 The feeble-minded faun (the stone - deaf man) led the way to Mr. Pike's assistance, followed by Tony, the suicidal Greek.
16 Mrs. Munroe proved to be a nice, motherly sort of a person, who, as it need hardly be said, was stone - deaf .
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