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Recent Examples of tactless And his most tactless friend, Justin, the volelike fellow with the baseball-cap addiction, would ask, Whatever happened to that other Laura? Hannah Gold, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025 At the end of the day, Cooper's guilty of being tactless. Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 24 Jan. 2025 The interviews were jocular, an approach that seemed tactless, given the film’s subject matter. Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025 That’s one of several reasons so many people battle Seasonal Affective Disorder—often shortened to the slightly tactless acronym SAD—in the winter, a recurrent form of depression that comes on during the colder, darker months. Kyle MacNeill, Vogue, 15 July 2024 See All Example Sentences for tactless
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Adjective
  • The decision in Gardner’s favor could become a significant ruling for celebrities who use humor, exaggeration and sarcasm that some might find inappropriate when responding to strangers on social media platforms.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 25 Sep. 2025
  • That Arthur, as the eldest, will inherit the brewery seems a bit inappropriate.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Lapid trades in indelicate satire for indelicate times — Y at one point literally and lavishly licks his wealthy benefactor’s gleaming knee-high boots — so these grisly verses at first seem a typically blunt caricature of Israeli nationalism at its most ruthless.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 23 May 2025
  • If any lawsuit ends up in court, a judge or jury will have to decide if an indelicate social media posting is worth more than $500,000 for the bereaved of Sade Robinson.
    Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 21 May 2025
Adjective
  • One careless click can expose your information.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Tom’s doomed desire for Vivien—and for her vanished twenty-first-century world—shows how people in the future may yearn for the past, though the past itself proves neglectful and careless of the future.
    Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Schiff vehemently denies anything improper.
    Lia Russell, Sacbee.com, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Cramming Proposition 50 on the November special election ballot is an improper use of public funds.
    John Moorlach, Oc Register, 22 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • So maybe use the feelings aroused by your sister-in-law’s thoughtless, certainly injudicious, possibly naughty remark as an opportunity to rise above.
    James Parker, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2024
  • Pam Anderson wasn’t a bad girl, per se, just a bit injudicious.
    John Anderson, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2022
Adjective
  • Residents complained to the British press about the associated inconvenience, recounting road closures (leading to, gasp, wet crops), bad American driving, and an indiscreet Secret Service presence.
    Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Hegseth’s indiscreet texts also pose serious intelligence risks.
    CNN.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The real star of this episode, however, was Gretchen Christine Beauté and her stupid Lara Croft outfit.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Among the colorful cast of rogues, villains, queens and clergymen, Andre The Giant stands out as the young suitor’s kind-hearted but stupid brute.
    Duane Byrge, HollywoodReporter, 25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Stranger things have happened, but that prospect doesn’t seem likely, judging from the bank’s undiplomatic statement.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 1 Apr. 2025
  • His approach, however, is rhetorically more blunt and undiplomatic compared to most of his predecessors.
    Christian Datoc, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 22 Mar. 2025

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“Tactless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tactless. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.

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