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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tactless
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ tactless remarks
▪ a tactless comment
▪ He made all sorts of tactless remarks about her appearance.
▪ How could he be so tactless as to make jokes about funerals when her father's just died?
▪ I wanted to know about her divorce but thought it would be tactless to ask.
▪ It was a bit tactless of you to start talking about her ex-boyfriend.
▪ She was often tactless and insensitive.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Beyond that, it would be tactless to enquire.
▪ I knew that my question was tactless, almost gross.
▪ It was a deeply tactless idea.
▪ Of course, a tactless dealer irritated him even more at this sort of time.
▪ Under the present circumstances, it seemed somehow tactless.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tactless

Tactless \Tact"less\, a. Destitute of tact.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tactless

"characterized by want of tact," 1830, from tact + -less. Related: Tactlessly; tactlessness.

Wiktionary
tactless

a. having no tact; unaware or intentionally inconsiderate of someone else's feelings

WordNet
tactless

  1. adj. lacking or showing a lack of what is fitting and considerate in dealing with others; "in the circumstances it was tactless to ask her age" [syn: untactful] [ant: tactful]

  2. showing skill in handling difficult situations [syn: undiplomatic]

  3. revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse; "an inept remark"; "it was tactless to bring up those disagreeable" [syn: inept]

Usage examples of "tactless".

The Council feels it might be tactless to try to sell the results to Khang Kieaan.

The General, during this, was tactless enough to allude to the quality of the basic weapon, with the French being praised for their ability to build better ships.

And though Mourning Bride and Bouncing Bet make a nice combination, it seems to be tactless to put them together.

Alexander was extremely polite and gave my mother another big gin, and chatted sociably to her about the latest films in the Center, and the color that was in vogue, nothing tactless or nasty, such as the cost of food inside, and out, or the SEO riots the month before, in the suburbs, when the sounds of the fires and the police rifles had penetrated even our sealedtight home in SEK.

Alexander was extremely polite and gave my mother another big gin, and chatted sociably to her about the latest films in the Center, and the color that was in vogue, nothing tactless or nasty, such as the cost of food inside, and out, or the SEO riots the month before, in the suburbs, when the sounds of the fires and the police rifles had penetrated even our sealed-tight home in SEK.

But he was touched, and disconcerted, by the tactless way in which Overbrook praised him: "We're mighty proud to have old George here to-night!

The villagers teased the Sarpanch: "How you got to be village headman with such a tactless spouse, beats us.

Khadija, the tactless old lady who had been for half a century the contented and contenting spouse of Sarpanch Muhammad Din, saw an archangel in a dream.

Some of these investigators were tactless and impolite, as only teen-agers can be, to the point of being offensive.

My wife and son noticed it as much as I, and we all ceased gradually to call on her - for which, Edward admitted in one of his boyishly tactless moments, she was unmitigatedly grateful.