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Dumbest, deafest, shittiest of all, you have removed the unstressed “a” so that the stress that should have fallen on “nosh” is lost, and my piece ends on an unstressed syllable.

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Unless you're one of the deafest, most stay-at-home Hobbits in history, you know the economy is in the flusher, and Christmas is likely to be a bit on the lean side.

Books are BEST! p_n_elrod 2008

Of all the ears that could not hear the deafest one was mine.

Brass 2010

Dumbest, deafest, shittest of all, you have removed the unstressed 'a' so that the stress that should have fallen on "nosh" is lost, and my piece ends on an unstressed syllable.

"I do not enjoy the suggestion that you have a better ear or eye for how I want my words to read than I do." Ann Althouse 2008

One day I asked him why and he said: "Because now I'm not the deafest s.o.b. in the place anymore."

A Shovelful of Salt 2006

Genius hovers with his sunshine and music close by the darkest and deafest eras.

Representative Men 2006

And with his thick Georgia accent, he pierced the deafest ears of people who never heard anybody talk like that before.

President Remarks At Augusta State University Ga ITY National Archives 1997

But even the deafest and most stay-at-home began to hear queer tales; and those whose business took them to the borders saw strange things.

The Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien, J. R. R. 1965

But even the deafest and most stay-at-home began to hear queer tales; and those whose business took them to the borders saw strange things.

The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

And then a looker-on in a Parisian atelier des dames would readily have understood the words, "He's gone, girls!" even were that looker-on deafer than the deafest old woman who ever mistook a thunder-clap for one of her lord's champion snores.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. Various