tone-deaf

Speech parts

1. tone-deaf - Adjective

2. tone-deaf - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

unable to appreciate music

Alternative names

tone deaf

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Examples

There are, one presumes, tone-deaf readers. Robertson Davies

Rap - so many words, so little said. What rap did that was impressive was to show there are so many tone-deaf people out there. All they need is a drum beat and somebody yelling over it and they're happy. There's an enormous market for people who can't tell one note from another. Keith Richards

Ultimately, I don't think you can teach a tone-deaf person how to sing. Some talents you're just born with, unfortunately. Anna Camp

Say what you want to say about the rest of his presidency, including his tone-deaf response to Katrina and a war waged in Iraq on false pretenses, Bush connected with Americans in the aftermath of 9/11 because he looked as frail and unforgiving as we felt. Ron Fournier

I am fifty years old and I have never known what it is to love. I can write those words, know them to be true, but feel only the regret that a tone-deaf man must feel because he can't appreicate music, a regret less keen because it is for something never known, not for something lost. P. D. James

All along I was not a musically inclined person, and in the past, was said to be tone-deaf and could NOT hold a tune. Source: Internet

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