For all that anyone knew to the contrary, the Overlords might be tone deaf.

Besides, Gristhorpe was tone deaf; for all his learning, he couldn't appreciate music.

If you're tone deaf, you can't hear the difference between musical pitches and notes.

People who are tone deaf also fail to hear pitch changes in the human voice, so this deficit does not seem specific to music.

I mean, no one is that tone deaf, are they?

Most people just say they're tone deaf because they haven't learned to sing.

Like one in 15 of us, he believes he is tone deaf.

She's tone deaf and didn't want to pass it on to my brother and me.

Poitier was tone deaf, and could not sing or dance.

On the other hand, Jamie was tone deaf, and made no bones about it.