tin ear
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tin ear
noun tin ears
- Insensitivity to and inability to appreciate the elements of performed music or the rhythm, elegance, or nuances of language. Despite their careless scholarship and a less tangible quality that some would call a tin ear for poetry, Morris Halle and S. J. Keyser, as metrists, have the considerable virtue of explicitness.
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Insensitivity to the nuances of the current situation or the subtleties of a craft; indifference to somebody else's attitudes, moods, and dialogue.
Japan has often displayed a tin ear to South Korean sensitivities over the island, which it calls Takeshima, having acquired it in the process of annexing Korea.
Similar: tone-deafness
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noun inability to appreciate the elements of performed music
| Deutsch | kein musikalisches Gehör haben |
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| Русский | медве́дь на у́хо наступи́л medvédʹ na úxo nastupíl |
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@misc{tin_ear_2026,
title = {tin ear},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tin%20ear},
urldate = {2026-11-08}
}
