tone-deaf
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7.7
- adjective
- /toʊn dɛf/
- Offensive
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falto de tacto
- This is some of the most tone deaf advertising for a digital game store I think I've ever seen.
- politically tone-deaf
- completely tone-deaf
- tone-deaf police chief
Stupid at best and completely fucking tone deaf to reality at worst.
- Stupid at best and completely fucking tone deaf to reality at worst.
- This is just such a tone deaf decision.
- Then the marketing is really bad and still somewhat tone deaf, at least for the technical press.
- Maybe maybe the way we're reading the room, maybe we're tone deaf.
- And this woman, I could not believe how tone deaf she is.
- And it's not surprising because when you think about the messaging, it seems a little tone deaf.
- I think this point bothers a lot of people because they think it's being, you know, mean or tone deaf about animals.
- This is some of the most tone deaf advertising for a digital game store I think I've ever seen.
- Sports writer Francis Ellis has written like the most tone deaf, heartless, cruel blog about a murdered girl.
- So those are when, when I see something maybe that's tone deaf or it's not, you know, it's usually because it's just simply not on brand and it's confusing to your audience.
- Yeah, it just seems like quite tone deaf.
- There's kind of a, a hint of like being a little tone deaf to it.
- It's just that this fox and the grapes response is a little bit tone deaf.
- I think that would be in one sense that could be a little tone deaf.
- So that this is, you know, an inherently typically misogynistic and, and, you know, tone deaf to, to women's concerns kind of story.
Examples
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This confirms for me that Robert can be a jerk and very emotionally and culturally tone-deaf.
Blog text (22) -
Their own class privilege can be quite invisible to them, leading them to say tone-deaf, obnoxious things.
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This is just such a tone deaf decision.
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Then the marketing is really bad and still somewhat tone deaf, at least for the technical press.
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This might be the most ill-conceived and tone-deaf editorial I have ever read.
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It strikes me as particularly tone-deaf to the reality that is Southern California.
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I think the negative responses are hilarious in the way that they're totally tone-deaf and clueless.
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Arroway may be a good, even great scientist, but she's politically tone-deaf and a loose cannon.
Fiction book (1997) -
Over the past year, the board has been roundly criticized for becoming a rubber stamp for former President Graham Spanier and for being tone-deaf to the feelings of large groups of alumni when it did take charge in the wake of Sandusky's arrest.
Blog text (31) -
His tone-deaf response to the tragedy left many feeling hurt and frustrated.
Synonyms
124
4.6
Not showing care for other people's feelings or needs
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4.7
Not reacting to touch, sound, or commands
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4.9
Showing no care for other people's feelings when speaking or acting
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7.3
Does not notice or care about things that upset other people
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9.9
Having no feeling in body or mind and no pity
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6.5
Does not show feelings or respond when someone tries to upset them
Not able or willing to notice how other people feel
Being very uncaring about other people's feelings
Antonyms
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Morphology
Etymology
The word tone-deaf comes from the parts tone ('the feeling or attitude in speech') and deaf ('not able to hear'). So calling someone tone-deaf means they 'do not hear' the mood or feelings of others, which is why the phrase says they miss social or emotional cues.