cloth-eared

British  

adjective

1. deaf

2. insensitive

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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

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

Orwell's own taste was notably dubious when applied to the work of others: his essay about the first three of TS Eliot's Four Quartets, for example, is cloth-eared and bigoted.

From The Guardian