tactless
[takt-lis]
adjective
Origin of tactless
Synonyms for tactless
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Related Words for tactless
untactful, awkward, boorish, brash, bungling, clumsy, crude, discourteous, gauche, gruff, harsh, hasty, impolite, impolitic, imprudent, inconsiderate, indelicate, indiscreet, inept, injudiciousExamples from the Web for tactless
Contemporary Examples of tactless
And if Lennon was tactless, McCartney was a natural diplomat.
Was it the tactless non-invitation to Queen Elizabeth II to the D-Day commemoration?
Historical Examples of tactless
When some tactless person tried to play tricks with the Crown.
Sir Walter ScottGeorge Saintsbury
And it was just there that the tactless waitress interrupted us so rudely.
Marge AskinforitBarry Pain
I believe, for a woman, I am quite unpardonably clumsy and tactless.'
Peter and JaneS. (Sarah) Macnaughtan
Being in a nervous twitter to get rid of him, I suppose I was pretty abrupt and tactless.
Dear EnemyJean Webster
Yes, I was still a bachelor—and probably a tactless, even a brutal, one.
On the StairsHenry B. Fuller
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