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Meanings of stone-deaf in English
Synonyms
Examples for "unhearing"
Examples for "unhearing"
1
Under his passionate words Arithelli sat like a being entranced, unseeing, unhearing.
2
Weak, soft, slow and stupid, unseeing, unhearing and unaware, helpless, hopeless, and harried.
3
The old man mumbled a reply; David leaned forward, unhearing.
4
Even to this Prescott listened only with unhearing ears--atfirst.
5
The two younger daughters kneeled unhearing, stiffened and impervious.
1
I have a very good friend who has been profoundly deaf since birth.
2
A control group of eight gerbils that received no treatment remained profoundly deaf.
3
Hopefully, it will be one best appreciated by the profoundly deaf.
4
I have a friend in town, tech writer, and profoundly deaf.
5
He is profoundly deaf and wears hearing aids in each ear.
1
Still she rocked back and forth, apparently as deaf as a post.
2
She's as true as steel and as deaf as a post.
3
The Marshal is as deaf as a post from the roar of cannon.
4
The cook was deaf as a post and would never hear.
5
He was deaf as a post and couldn't tell how loud they were.
Usage of stone-deaf in English
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.