tin ear
nounDefinition of tin ear
: a deafened or insensitive ear
Examples of tin ear in a Sentence
My wife is a talented musician, but I have a tin ear.
Recent Examples on the Web
The president’s tin ear on race—reflected in his Twitter spats with black athletes and his clumsy response to the Charlottesville rioting, among other instances—is unfortunate but hardly the sum of his time in office. — Jason L. Riley, WSJ, "Among Black Voters, Trump’s Popularity Inches Upward," 6 Nov. 2018 The president, for example, has experienced several instances of his jokes falling on tin ears. — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, "Swaggy P goes one joke over the line," 25 June 2018 The Cars franchise has always been Pixar’s attempt to woo the NASCAR crowd, and even if the studio’s got a tin ear for contemporary country stars, the first movie’s paean to small-town life went deeper than demographic pandering. — Sam Adams, Slate Magazine, "The Cars sequel for people who hate Cars 2.," 13 June 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'tin ear.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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