WordNet
adj. unwilling to hear [syn: inattentive, unheeding, unlistening(a), deaf to(p)]
Usage examples of "deaf to".
She was deaf to the whistles of two preman boys setting the sidewalk tables for La China.
Fiona considered knocking on the door, but common sense dictated that Teresa Dunn would be as deaf to her knock as she would be to any further questioning.
Any Lizard monitoring this one, though, would have to be extraordinarily tone-deaf to miss the obvious fact that Penny was lying through her teeth.
A large uniformed policeman told me to get out of the pond, and when I failed to obey he clicked a pair of handcuffs on my wrists and walked off, deaf to protests.
When she was a little older, she'd tried to train herself to play deaf to the gossip and the snide remarks, the whispers she always heard behind her back, but it was beyond her best efforts.
He made himself blind to the stars that had been his only roof for so many years, deaf to the summons of the wilderness and the deep terror in his heart.
It was said in the texts that people had taken a savage joy in raping and ravaging the world, deaf to the entreaties of more-enlightened minds.