How To Use Tone-deaf In A Sentence
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Mrs. Sharp, being tone-deaf herself, nodded and smiled while he played, and encouraged him greatly.
CHARMED LIFE
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It's actually quite good to get tone-deaf people who think they can sing to play.
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My 5-year-old giggled aloud at the silly premise of a tone-deaf and rhythmically challenged bird, Igor, who sets out in search of music lessons.
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I cannot believe that after having run such an exceptional, thoughtful and for the most part 'pitch perfect' campaign that Obama would make the collosal mistake of being 'blackmailed' into accepting this divisive, self-centered, tone-deaf and (I'm increasingly convinced) not entirely stable person as a VP candidate.
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These well-meaning campaigners are chronically tone-deaf to pop cultural semantics and subtleties.
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Aubrey and Maturin are enthusiastic amateur musicians, Hornblower is tone-deaf.
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Those damn dirges are still running around my brain, like a tone-deaf rat with a megaphone is trapped inside my head.
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Double Walsh started singing in his own tone-deaf way: So merry, so merry are we.
THE MAIN CAGES
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I will say though, that Gallagher is tone-deaf at best, and this has helped create a public perception of departmental arrogance.
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In America, I have to cope with tone-deaf cocktail pianists with fire-retardant toupees.
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7: 57: Thousands of tone-deaf Swiss croon along to their national anthem, which starts promisingly but then lapses into an introspective doggerel.
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The girl who sings it has a gorgeous voice, and I feel terrible for singing it with my tone-deaf one.
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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.
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Last Sunday they even had a heavily amplified, tone-deaf rock band rehearsing in the backyard all afternoon.
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The software displays the recording's structure, identifying the notes by pitch as high and low notes, alerting the tone-deaf to where their melody fell apart.
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If you see my blog you will see a Wilfred Owen sonnet I've read recently; 'Hospital Barge at cerisy' and I've also been readin 'February Afteroon' by Edward Thomas which ends in the lines "And God still sits aloft in the array, That we have wrought him, stone-deaf and stone-blind.
From The Ridiculous To The Sublime
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But I do know good music from bad music, and I can tell the difference between talented musicians and tone-deaf cack-handed wannabes with no sense of rhythm.
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Why let fickle rock journalists and tone-deaf music fans control that myth?
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Yet reading this novel, even a tone-deaf person could feel the delight and excitement that music enthusiasts experience when they hear an uplifting melody.
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And I think what's really remarkably interesting, Anderson, is that in the early days of her first ladyhood, she sometimes could be tone-deaf.
CNN Transcript Feb 9, 2005
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This is dismaying news for the cloth-eared, tone-deaf breeders among us.
Times, Sunday Times
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My sisters can both sing, but my mother is tone-deaf and my father just can't sing.
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After all, it included anyone who wanted to sing, from the tone-deaf bass who grumbled his monotone to the screeching soprano whose high C shattered glass.
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She didn't care, even when we said she was tone-deaf!
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The festival began during the drear days of the Bush administration, a group of the most tone-deaf, word-challenged, and brutish politicians as we've ever had to endure in this country.
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It feels like being tone-deaf in a world of musicians.
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He could be very tender and gracious, but often seemed tone-deaf to the amenities and dishonesties that make human relations tolerable.
Thoughts on setting out to read the collected correspondence of the poets Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop
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Writers complain about tone-deaf editors who read with their eyes and not with their ears.
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Before you scoff at the idea of him having feelings for a tone-deaf, entitled ditz, get this: He's not the only one with a Sugar craving.
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But the most notable characteristic of the piano is that it is eminently suitable for the tone-deaf.
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Even a tone-deaf fool like me can tell she has a voice like an angel.
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But I do know good music from bad music, and I can tell the difference between talented musicians and tone-deaf wannabes with no sense of rhythm.
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She is single-minded and tone-deaf and occasionally resorts to anachronistic yoof-speak ('awks' for 'awkward').
The Times Literary Supplement
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He couldn't carry a tune to save his life - he was tone-deaf.
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I have great confidence that President Bush's policies will grow the economy and create a job for every American who wants one, including his politically tone-deaf economist.
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She has been stone-deaf since birth.
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If you think you're tone-deaf, she teaches you to hear the differences between each instrument.
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Egged on by friends he proceeded to rap out some tone-deaf songs, the melodies of which were mangled through drink.
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It's a completely dissociative view of American politics—that there are these corrupt, tone-deaf politicans totally unconnected to the caring, compassionate person.
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And if you'd seen the way he got into the song, even in his tone-deaf, screechy manner, you'd fall in love with this song, too.
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Past IMF efforts in other regions, including Latin America and Asia, were often seen as heavy-handed and tone-deaf to the privations forced on ordinary citizens.
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Exempting microbrews from a beer tax is the most absurdly tone-deaf proposal the State Dems have come up with in a session that was short on euphony to begin with.
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Since it first aired in 2004, audiences have primarily been drawn to The X Factor for the entertainment value to be had from watching the most disastrous auditions: the tone-deaf no-hoper who performs an acoustic version of Michael Jackson's Billie Jean accompanied on the spoons, for instance, or the mother-and-daughter duo with an inexplicable faith in their non-existent singing abilities.
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