Translations for „tone-deaf“ in the English » Russian Dictionary

tone-deaf ADJ

to be tone-deaf

петь фальши́во

to be tone-deaf

не различа́ть отте́нков зву́ка

Usage examples with tone-deaf

to be tone-deaf

не различа́ть отте́нков зву́ка

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English

Her leadership over the education dossier can only be characterized as hostile, self-serving and tone-deaf.

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If a person has a tin ear, she is tone-deaf, unable to tell quality from garbage.

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She is extremely tone-deaf and her singing ability is so poor that it can incapacitate those who hear it - a running gag in the story.

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As a result of his tone-deaf pledge, many in the tech world called for his removal from company boards and other high-level positions.

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Plenty of the teenagers had seemed positively tone-deaf on first encounter, not to mention wholly uninterested in the task at hand.

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If you get something so impossibly wrong, make a mistake that is so tone-deaf, you're probably not going to get a second chance.

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In conservative rhetoric, in talk radio especially, it's easy to find tone-deaf talking-down about race.

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The company heads off those moments of unintended passion, when someone interprets a tone-deaf email the wrong way.

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Unfortunately, she is tone-deaf and a terrible singer.

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She is energetic and excitable, and she likes to sing despite being tone-deaf.

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