half-deaf

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Both were half-asleep and both were half-deaf from all the cannon firings their ears had had to withstand throughout their long careers as soldiers.

Bubble in the Bathtub Jo Nesbo 2011
In the apartment next door was a half-deaf widower who fell asleep to Johnny Carson's blaring monologues.

White Noise J. A. Johnson 2011
Even blind in one eye and half-deaf, he was cocky.

Crossed J.F. Lewis 2011
Both were half-asleep and both were half-deaf from all the cannon firings their ears had had to withstand throughout their long careers as soldiers.

Bubble in the Bathtub Jo Nesbo 2011
Even blind in one eye and half-deaf, he was cocky.

Crossed J.F. Lewis 2011
Her parents had died when she was twelve, and she had gone to live with her only other relation, a great-aunt who had been already half-deaf from age.

Among the Ghosts Amber Benson 2010
Her parents had died when she was twelve, and she had gone to live with her only other relation, a great-aunt who had been already half-deaf from age.

Among the Ghosts Amber Benson 2010
Blame it on the fact that I grew up around a lot of half-deaf elderly people.

Having A Bad Mel Day 2010
Her parents had died when she was twelve, and she had gone to live with her only other relation, a great-aunt who had been already half-deaf from age.

Among the Ghosts Amber Benson 2010
You felt worse when his bent-over, white-haired, half-deaf mother came to the door with homemade potato gnocchi.

"You Go" 2009