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cloth-eared

British  

adjective

  1. deaf

  2. insensitive

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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 • Nov. 25, 2022

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 • Feb. 9, 2016

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