tin ear

名词 n.

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名词 n.

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.
Insensitivity to the nuances of the current situation or the subtleties of a craft; indifference to somebody else's attitudes, moods, and dialogue. figuratively

— 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.

tin ears plural