bad ear

Adenoids in children frequently bring about a bad ear trouble.

We went in and he made me change places with him in order to be able to talk to me; he was growing nearly deaf in the bad ear.

He certainly had a bad ear for vocal sounds, so that he found it impossible to perceive small differences in pronunciation.

But we do not consider how many have “a bad ear” for words, nor how often the most eloquent find nothing to reply.

Lay the patient down on the sound side, with the bad ear uppermost, and get someone to hold him firmly.