tin-eared

The various changes to the original text are almost all bad or tin-eared.

At worst, its political debate can be parochial, even tin-eared about the world outside.

Why is it that English sports fans are so tone-deaf and tin-eared?

They are also about overcoming the daily frustrations of public life, the tin-eared in government and town hall.

She rejects the premise than anyone is tin-eared or tone-deaf.

But when it comes to the mechanics of storytelling, she is often ungainly and tin-eared.

Rather, they’re a pitch-perfect recreation of the show’s tin-eared tone.

That message does not yet appear to have reached the tin-eared occupants of many boardrooms.

The result is a tin-eared, accident-prone and oddly unstreetwise government.

He is awkward and somewhat tin-eared, and can seem aloof.

Those tin-eared bureaucrats in the General Services Administration spent a total of $835,000.

Satirizing tin-eared political discourse is always fun, but it's like shooting fish in a barrel.

Who cares If we deafened those tin-eared people upstairs?

That it would choose such a clumsy, tin-eared defense kind of is.)

But there's just as much that's ham-fisted or tin-eared.

“Democracy promotion” lost its shine under your cack-handed, tin-eared predecessor.

The tin-eared technology industry calls these kinds of Web applications software-as-a-service, and despite its terrible name the notion has caught on.

Republicans have quickly distanced themselves from Romney’s remarks, which struck many as tin-eared or sour grapes.

Internet wags called it a tin-eared attempt to win favor with an ethnic group, or worse, an insult.

But it was a tin-eared remark nonetheless.

"But what's the point," said an increasingly tin-eared Paxman, who went on to suggest being a spaceman might be boring.

To be suddenly inarticulate was the greatest torture for Welles, even worse than pleading with the tin-eared executives.

The line about the Obama swooning over his own historical greatness is predicated on what may be the most tin-eared presidential remark in memory.

Rinehart's hectoring, tin-eared public persona makes her seem as though she were born without the wryness gene.

Lord Glasman said that the Labour leadership have showed a 'tin-eared contempt for the public'