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untactful

  • a word derived from tactful.
    tactful
    adjective
    having or manifesting tact.

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So unstoppable was his passion that it overwhelmed the management confusion in the Yankee organization created by his frequent top-level changes and untactful communications.

From Washington Post Jul. 18, 2010

A young man of brutal honesty and impeccable integrity, Bobby frequently antagonizes politicians with his blunt opinions and untactful tactics.

From Time Magazine Archive

But thoughtless, untactful employers resulted in employes with ambitions thwarted and stunted.

From Time Magazine Archive

It seemed untactful to ask what the secret police were doing in a library.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet it was glaringly apparent to him that Umu, their captain, was inordinately proud of his regiment; and the new Inca was by no means untactful.

From Harry Escombe A Tale of Adventure in Peru by Victor Prout