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Examples of tactless in a Sentence
made a tactless remark about how the woman's dress had that “homemade” look
Recent Examples on the Web
Second, its tactless characters provided a useful moral compass.
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Karla Miller, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2024
Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, and Jason Sudeikis create an effortless synergy while their higher-ups — played by Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Aniston, and Colin Farrell — steal the show by acting out the tactless, HR nightmares that come back to haunt them.
—James Mercadante and Kelsie Calderon, EW.com, 19 Sep. 2023
The comment is more than a little tactless, considering Jackie was only taken in by the Walters after losing her entire family in a car accident.
—Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Dec. 2023
By the time the new season began, his divorce was the talk of the office, and the OC agents couldn’t help but wonder what part Tyler’s tactless interactions with his colleagues played in the breakup.
—Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 14 Sep. 2023
Nearly seventy years later Ridley isn’t quite tactless or tasteless, but she’s untrammeled by any restraints.
—Geoffrey Wheatcroft, The New York Review of Books, 7 Oct. 2021
Winslet, though, has stuck through it, despite the cruel media, the bad reviews, the uninspiring scripts, the tactless journalists.
—Jeva Lange, The Week, 26 May 2021
Concerned members posted comments with questions, some demanding an explanation for what was largely seen as a tactless message.
—Outside Online, 15 Dec. 2020
The most entertaining relationship in the book belongs to Jane and her mother Phyllis, a galumphing, tactless force who lives down in Grand Rapids.
—Erin Douglass, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 June 2021
Karla Miller, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2024
Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, and Jason Sudeikis create an effortless synergy while their higher-ups — played by Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Aniston, and Colin Farrell — steal the show by acting out the tactless, HR nightmares that come back to haunt them.
—James Mercadante and Kelsie Calderon, EW.com, 19 Sep. 2023
The comment is more than a little tactless, considering Jackie was only taken in by the Walters after losing her entire family in a car accident.
—Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Dec. 2023
By the time the new season began, his divorce was the talk of the office, and the OC agents couldn’t help but wonder what part Tyler’s tactless interactions with his colleagues played in the breakup.
—Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 14 Sep. 2023
Nearly seventy years later Ridley isn’t quite tactless or tasteless, but she’s untrammeled by any restraints.
—Geoffrey Wheatcroft, The New York Review of Books, 7 Oct. 2021
Winslet, though, has stuck through it, despite the cruel media, the bad reviews, the uninspiring scripts, the tactless journalists.
—Jeva Lange, The Week, 26 May 2021
Concerned members posted comments with questions, some demanding an explanation for what was largely seen as a tactless message.
—Outside Online, 15 Dec. 2020
The most entertaining relationship in the book belongs to Jane and her mother Phyllis, a galumphing, tactless force who lives down in Grand Rapids.
—Erin Douglass, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 June 2021
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First Known Use
circa 1847, in the meaning defined above
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“Tactless.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tactless. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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