cloth-eared
Britishadjective
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deaf
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insensitive
Example Sentences
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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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