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adj. - Unwilling to hear.

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Usage examples (17)
  • Stalking my unlistening tendency, finding what I don't like to hear nor listen, of course.
  • "The arrogant attitude and the unlistening behaviour of the employer has reached stinking levels," charged the ZCTU.
  • I shouted to his unlistening ears that I would surrender myself if only he would allow me to stop existing in this vacuum.
  • IN PRACTICE it is widely derided as undemocratic, unaccountable, manipulated, unlistening, and at the end of the day railroaded by the government.
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