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be deaf to

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of be deaf to in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of be deaf to in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of be deaf to in a Sentence

  1. Olga Rudenko:

    That was completely tone-deaf to the situation, and done in a very patronizing tone... As a Ukrainian he is failing me personally from a communication point of view, we don't know what to believe.

  2. Desiree Andrade:

    That press conference was an embarrassment. George Gascon is completely tone-deaf to the impact his policies are having on victims and public safety.

  3. Paulo Coelho, The Fifth Mountain:

    The Lord listens to the pryers of those who ask to be able to forget hatred, but is deaf to those who want to flee love.

  4. Herman Melville:

    We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its voice; and dead to its death. And not till we know, that one grief outweighs ten thousand joys will we become what Christianity is striving to make us.

  5. James Webb:

    Where principle is involved, be deaf to expediency.

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