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tactless

takt luhs

  • a  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
  • s  revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse
    it was tactless to bring up those disagreeable

  • When her graduating gown was delayed, and a tactless youth offered to lend her his, she almost fainted.
  • An Eighth Army spokesman was tactless enough to put the point intelligibly: "Some dependents have been abusing PX privileges through black-marketing"and with that, the Korean .
  • It was Baron Shidehara who warned the Army that Japan, by a tactless invasion of Manchuria, would tarnish her bright chance to force recognition by China of what Japan considers .
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  • Billionaire Art Man Divorces Wife for Disappointing Lack of Strangling Defense
    Billionaire art collecter Charles Saatchi has decided to leave his celebrity chef wife Nigella Lawson (above) for a spectacularly tactless reason fitting of someone who would choke his wife in public and pass it off as a playful "tiff": because she didn't publicly defend him after he choked her. 
    July 7, 2013 - The Atlantic Wire via Yahoo! News

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