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selective hearing (noun) : choosing what to hear and what not to hear; only hearing things that positively affect the listener and being deaf to things that will have negative impact

My dad likes to pretend that he is deaf to get out of doing chores, but my family knows he just suffers from selective hearing.

Submitted by: Kimberly from Pennsylvania on Jun. 15, 2007 09:49

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