tone-deaf

Kelly said: "I hope she's tone-deaf and [becomes] anything else - a social worker or a lawyer."

"And that's my reading of the situation, but then there is no reason why he shouldn't be 'tone-deaf' it's a constitutional right we all have," he added.

Hosted by husband and wife team Vernon Kay and Tess Daly, it promises to throw up a few tone-deaf turkeys and maybe a couple of hidden talents.

My 5-year-old giggled aloud at the silly premise of a tone-deaf and rhythmically challenged bird, Igor, who sets out in search of music lessons.

Dawn Chorus doesn't bring lovely melodies to his beak, however: it turns out Igor is tone-deaf. And voice lessons don't seem to help?

Despite his own experiments with satire, he discovers he is tone-deaf when it comes to Chabon's tale ("I had been fooled").

Finally tone-deaf Candy - who you'll recognise as Joanna Page from Love Actually - is not only flaky, but is convinced she'll one day win Pop Idol.

Even the most tone-deaf of the city commissioners recognized the potential backfire of permanently locking the front door of city hall, for whatever reasons.

Instead of bringing together yet another gaggle of tone-deaf teenagers a la "Star Academy," the show on the Lagardere-owned music web Mezzo pits 21 classically trained singers against one another.

In Japan alone, the karaoke industry last year earned over $7 billion, no chump change for a business that exists essentially to give the vocally impaired an excuse to impersonate Utada Hikaru or Mick Jagger (or, in this tone-deaf writer's case, Karen Carpenter).

Tone-deaf Dolores is not a member of the school chorus until Moustro Provolone realizes she has a gift for writing music.

This scholar, we can be sure, was tone-deaf to the kingdom.

Seemingly completely tone-deaf to pop culture, George W.

Now, especially in the aftermath of the dot-com die off, only tone-deaf flacks or the truly clueless seem to use it anymore.

In contrast to 16 other volunteers not claiming the impairment, all the self-declared tone-deaf people struggled with anything involving music.