Tone Deaf

Word TONE DEAF
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Definitions and meanings of "Tone Deaf"

What do we mean by tone deaf?

Unable to distinguish differences in musical pitch. adjective

Unable to appreciate or understand the concerns or difficulties of others; out-of-touch. adjective

Unable to clearly distinguish the difference in pitch between different notes. adjective

Having little appreciation of music, whether or not as a result of (1). adjective

Unable to appreciate music adjective

Tone-deaf people, as a group.

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The word "tone-deaf" in example sentences

That could help rehabilitate her image and earn chits with party leaders, some of whom think she threw away the governor's race by running a tone-deaf campaign. ❋ Allysia Finley (2011)

He also blasted the DNC's statement as politically tone-deaf. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Really, how stupid and tone-deaf are these people? ❋ Unknown (2009)

As James Fallows of The Atlantic put it so accurately, Netanyahu is the "Dick Cheney of Israel," characterizing the former vice president as someone who, "mistook short-term intransigence for long-term strategic wisdom, seemed blind and tone-deaf to the 'moral' and 'soft power' components of influence, profited from a polarized and fearful political climate, and attempted to command rather than earn support from allies and potential adversaries." ❋ Stephen Zunes (2011)

But Obama -- hailing from the nuclear powerhouse of Illinois also home to the largest quantities of unsafe, radioactive spent fuel in the country -- is either tone-deaf or too beholden to Exelon and other nuclear companies to speak candidly on its dangers. ❋ Daphne Wysham (2011)

To talk about ‘net social costs’ in the context of marginalized minorities is tone-deaf. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Gwyneth Paltrow has given fans a look into her daily routine in her latest Goop.com lifestyle newsletter — but the Oscar-winnng millionairess' advice about juggling a career and family has received its share of criticism for being a little tone-deaf to her audience. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Whether it's pushing science on a dreamy poet or music on a tone-deaf athlete, society is littered with the rubble of childhoods mangled by parental ambition. ❋ Petula Dvorak (2011)

NB: Ideally, this pervasive incoherence and tone-deaf arrogance will come naturally. ❋ Sean Carman (2011)

Music to Our Ears Award: While packing up to return the karaoke machine he got for tone-deaf Gloria on Modern Family, Jay decides to give the ol' thing a whirl himself. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I think he is tone-deaf (country club, Civil Rights Act). ❋ Unknown (2010)

While it is great that so many businesses finally see the green in ‘going green’, too often businesses approach going green in all the wrong ways – producing useless ‘eco’ products, tone-deaf marketing, or even worse: greenwashing. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If a team in the CFL decided to call itself the Patriots after a successful NFL team the name would sound clueless and tone-deaf, although not half as much as Real Salt Lake does. ❋ Unknown (2010)

There's a reason that we use the metaphor "tone-deaf" to describe a particular kind of political failure. ❋ Philip Kennicott (2011)

Even more frustrating is the inability to reach through the television screen and say directly to a people facing great peril and immense promise that while our political leaders are tone-deaf, we are not. ❋ Philip Kennicott (2011)

Emboldened by liberal paternalism and tone-deaf to brewing anti-government sentiment, the FTC went beyond what the science supported and proposed three rules: that all ads aimed at children 6 and younger be banned; that ads for especially unhealthy sugary foods (those that threaten dental health) be banned for children ages 7 to 11; and that ads for less-sugary foods aimed at them include health disclaimers. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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