Tin ear
"Tin ear" in a Sentence (5 examples)
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.
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.
With the economy as it is, I think the RMT has a tin ear to think it will find sympathy or public support for strike action. I hope sense prevails,
“The tin ear and lack of sensitivity to other people’s needs is fairly characteristic of his party,” Mr. Sirr noted.
Julia Hobsbawm[…] responded to Schonle’s post on LinkedIn, saying: “Shocking to read this happened. The defensive quote from London Tech Week the worst kind of tin ear.”