Definition of tin ear in English English dictionary
Insensitivity to and inability to appreciate the elements of performed music or the rhythm, elegance, or nuances of language
Despite their careless scholarship and a less tangible quality that some would call a tin ear for poetry, Morris Halle and S. J. Keyser, as metrists, have the considerable virtue of explicitness.
An insensitivity to music or to sounds of a given kind: a writer with a tin ear for dialogue
insensitivity to the appropriateness or subtlety of language; "he has a tin ear for dialogue