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  • adverb In a tactless manner; in a manner intentionally inconsiderate of another's feelings.

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  • adverb without tact; in a tactless manner

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Examples

  • Beautifully played by John Heffernan, Bloch emerges as a whimsical Irish expat who knows all about the interviewer's history, including her marriage to Lucian Freud, but who tactlessly tells her: "I've got a very soft spot for difficult women."

    The Last of the Duchess – review 2011

  • In November forestry minister, Jim Paice, a tactlessly plain-spoken farmer from East Anglia not too many forests there, told a Commons committee that the government envisaged "a very substantial disposal of the public forest estate which could go to the extent of all of it".

    Forestry sell-off: public and political opposition forced U-turn 2011

  • But Kennedy was the president who sparked Israel's breakthrough to military predominance; he bowed to congressional pressure and became the first U.S. president to sell Israel cutting-edge weaponry, early warning radars, and then, stunningly, in 1962, Hawk anti-aircraft missiles (the cream of the NATO arsenal), which the Israelis tactlessly installed around their Dimona nuclear weapons facility.

    Geoffrey Wawro: "A Head for an Eye": Gaza, Israel and the Limits of "Escalation Dominance." Geoffrey Wawro 2010

  • “I have to look at this matter from a more national point of view than some of you,” he told them, tactlessly.

    Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

  • “I have to look at this matter from a more national point of view than some of you,” he told them, tactlessly.

    Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

  • It is hard to imagine that Germany could ever behave as indecently as the French, implode as spectacularly as the Italians, or grumble as tactlessly as the English.

    World Cup 2010: Strong spirit of Germany a silent salute to lost friend 2010

  • Himself had been heard to remark (tactlessly) that the castle's conservationists still had charge of the eagle only because its weight made stealing it difficult.

    They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff Josh Spilker 2010

  • "We're eating like savages," she tactlessly bellows while dining surrounded by a tribe of very polite local natives.

    Tallulah Morehead: Survivor Tocantins: NOT About Susan Boyle! 2009

  • Annabelle Fuller the UKIP press officer has alluded tactlessly to the Methuselan vintage of its members.

    Archive 2007-08-26 Newmania 2007

  • Annabelle Fuller the UKIP press officer has alluded tactlessly to the Methuselan vintage of its members.

    UKIP Listed Newmania 2007

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