He did not, she guessed, suffer from defective hearing.

I had an idea of what he meant to say, and just saved myself by the privilege of defective hearing.

He failed his annual physical on account of defective hearing, but the condition was waived due to the great need for officers.

Mostly he heard the villagers, the Agvars, noisy with the disregard for sound that comes of defective hearing.

This is denied by some authors, who claim that the dullness of comprehension and inattention are only apparent, and due only to defective hearing.

With my defective hearing, it only annoys me, and I may be tempted to review my generous offer to allow you and yours to depart unhindered.

He seemed a genial and indestructible landmark in the history of American music, in spite of defective hearing which had bothered him since the late Seventies.

His one obvious debility, no joke for a master of spoken idioms, is defective hearing; his phone, keyed to ear-splitting volume, trilled six times before he asked, in puzzlement, “What’s that?”

But when these physical defects (poor eyesight, defective hearing, adenoids, bad tonsils, etc.) are corrected so that the mind can function without any outcry from the physical body, these children recuperate mentally and often make greater progress than the so-called normal children in the regular grades.