4 example sentences using deaf-mute.
Deaf-mute used in a sentence
Deaf-mute in a sentence as a noun
I would pay 10% more for a deaf-mute introvert cabbie. 20% more for a completely automated car.
She had spent the first years of her life isolated in a dark room with her deaf-mute mother as her only contact. Only seven months later, she had learned a vocabulary of around 1,500 to 2,000 words.
Deaf-mute in a sentence as an adjective
I was thinking more along the lines of a deaf-mute person being able to give a presentation or hold a lecture for people that do not understand sign language.
In his story, he failed because he quickly devised the pattern from the deaf-mute and extrapolated gestures as the method of communication. Deliberative thought is penalized in IQ-like tests and that is, in my opinion, a huge mistake.
Deaf-mute definitions
a deaf person who is unable to speak
See also: mute
lacking the sense of hearing and the ability to speak
See also: deaf-and-dumb