Translation of "Unmusikalisch" in English

Oh, he's not such a tin ear.

The term "tone-deaf" comes to mind.

We could have gone out for a drink, had a tone-deaf sing-along to some old records.

The Neary family is notoriously tone-deaf.

I don't know. I'm pretty tone-deaf.

You claim that the Buddenbrooks are unmusical.

There are people who describe themselves as “religiously tone deaf”.

In fact, they seem to be very unmusical entirely and to miss the whole point of the music.

I hoped my father would forgive me for not being good at music.

Where his daughter's musical talent comes from, her father doesn't know. He and his wife don't have a musical bone in their bodies, he says.

Such a quotation is excellent proof that Bonhoeffer could never be accused of being "religiously unmusical" - something the sociologist Max Weber once said of himself.

Meyer specifically defines the concept of "unmusical", even though this is essentially a reversal of his explanation of "musical".

The prominent philosopher and sociologist Jürgen Habermas, who has never attempted to conceal being “religiously unmusical”, made a public appeal to acknowledge religion as a source of meaning in democracies.

However, it does not mean that birdsong in general is constructed like human music – there are around 4000 different song bird species and each has its own way of singing. Some are not very musical at all,” says Henrik Brumm, research group leader in Seewiesen.

Unfortunately, the 'vicious' of the world are often so a-musical that it does not always work.

But, says the Islamic studies scholar, we should also realise that many people, who are otherwise "not usually at all religiously observant take the command of sacrifice very seriously indeed."

And indeed – our way of thinking and acting, the mentality of today’s world, the whole range of our experience is inclined to deaden our receptivity for God, to make us “tone deaf” towards him.

He himself was unmusical in a completely cheerful way, he gazed in admiration and admired every manifestation of my skills, which I gradually acquired on the/this instrument, as if they were the achievements of a precocious mathematical genius.

Electronic tape pieces such as «Studie I» by Karlheinz Stockhausen were frequently described as lifeless, rigid, and unmusical.

An outcast of sorts throughout his life – particularly as a homosexual man in a society that was still firmly entrenched in its heteronormative ways – Meek was tenacious when it came to getting the sound he wanted out of a recording, despite the fact that he was tone-deaf and could barely play any instrument. Meek began his career in music at London's most advanced studio at the time, IBC, in 1955.

How did you get together with tin-eared charlie?

Some tone-deaf drunk girl mutilating Britney Spears.

Nobody loved Elliot's tone-deaf rendition of Old McDonald.

My tone-deaf sidekick Justin here will be collecting your information.

Romeo Franz: I have to say I know more unmusical Sinti and Roma than musical ones.

Only a great spirit could ignore, in total command of the situation, the usual leading ways of 'modernizing' the musical language, and out of his own depths form a mode of expression which has nothing to do with the unmusical experiments of the century, and nonetheless sounds absolutely original.

A number of features entirely unrelated to music appeared on the cover in this era, including a piece by William Leith on computer crime and articles by Stuart Cosgrove on such subjects as the politics of sport and the presence of American troops in Britain, with Elvis Presley appearing on the cover not for musical reasons but as a political symbol.

All the while, the group is pursued by Amadeus Warnebring, a tone-deaf policeman born into a distinguished musical family who hates the sound of music.

This change is also reflected in the musical concept: the completely unmusical robbers make rough music with body and soul, but ultimately strike almost delicate tones.

By surrounding himself with a court of bright young technocrats, Macron lost contact with what he calls "his people" (a rather tone-deaf formulation in itself).

Therefore I’d like to say thank you (NOT in a musical way) for the great times had, all the advice and inspiration given to me by the members of the studio!