cloth-eared

adjective

1. deaf
2. insensitive

Example Sentences

And who can forget Kenny Everett's Snot Rap, a cloth-eared rant about hip-hop lyrics, memorable only for the line: "You can chuck in the word circumcision/ 'Cos we ain't going to Eurovision."

From BBC

Dr Helen Finch, associate professor in German at the University of Leeds, praised Handke’s ability to explore “the fringes of human experience in an extraordinary way and for his “early and complex form of ecopoetics”, but said his Nobel win “shows that the prize committee is still infatuated by white European men writing in an elitist poetic tradition, and is cloth-eared to the political complicity of those men”.

From The Guardian

It would head off further protests, at least for the time being, and would at least show a willingness among the cloth-eared executive class to listen to their consumers.

From The Guardian

Just when you thought things couldn’t get any worse, the overlords of country music have unleashed two of the very worst “country” songs that could possibly be imagined at the tail-end of this frustrating season, thereby ensuring that the degradation of the genre will not go unnoticed by even the most cloth-eared listeners.

From The Guardian

Presenting music theory visually is a job almost as difficult as imagining the ignorance of the thickest cloth-eared viewer, but Goodall had some champion graphics and split-screen tricks up his sleeve to demonstrate chord-building and the evolution of notation from the equivalent of hand signals to the familiar, though to some of us equally baffling, squiggles of today.

From The Guardian