tactlessly
IPA: tˈæktɫʌsɫi
adverb
- In a tactless manner; in a manner intentionally inconsiderate of another's feelings.
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Examples of "tactlessly" in Sentences
- Annabelle Fuller the UKIP press officer has alluded tactlessly to the Methuselan vintage of its members.
- “I have to look at this matter from a more national point of view than some of you,” he told them, tactlessly.
- "We're eating like savages," she tactlessly bellows while dining surrounded by a tribe of very polite local natives.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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."
- 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".
- 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.
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