How to Use tactless in a Sentence

tactless

adjective
  • Your tactless or tactile uncles?
    — Taiye Selasi, New Yorker, 31 May 2026
  • This response rewards the tactless well-wisher.
    — Judith Martin, Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2026
  • This is not to say that Sanders has never been the subject of tactless, sexist remarks.
    — Amanda Arnold, The Cut, 29 Apr. 2018
  • However, what your cohorts are doing is not mindless, tactless talk.
    — Tribune, Detroit Free Press, 15 Jan. 2020
  • Turns in the plot ultimately make this feel less tactless, but Rough Night has other hurdles to clear.
    — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 15 June 2017
  • As decoration, they are considered tacky; as gifts, tactless.
    — Avi Steinberg, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2017
  • This is just a more tactless articulation of the same belief system our cities operate on today.
    — Apoorva Tadepalli, The New Republic, 11 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • The song does not require such a tactless thematic assist from PowerPoint.
    — Lee Williams | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 14 Oct. 2019
  • But there’s a bigger reason than avoiding the social blunder of being tactless in sending a get well card in a world that left so many of us not to ‘get well’ at all, ever.
    — Paul Keane, Hartford Courant, 10 May 2024
  • Second, its tactless characters provided a useful moral compass.
    — Karla Miller, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Alas, Madame Verdurin’s sinking feelings are not hers alone, since who among us isn’t implicated in this moment of tactless pleasure?
    — Laurence Scott, The New Yorker, 31 Dec. 2016
  • Concerned members posted comments with questions, some demanding an explanation for what was largely seen as a tactless message.
    — Outside Online, 15 Dec. 2020
  • Beethoven’s decision to appoint his brother Karl as his go-between with publishers was ill-advised, as Karl was arrogant and tactless.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 29 Dec. 2020
  • With millions of people watching, negative, insensitive, and sometimes tactless comments are inevitable.
    — Devon Abelman, Allure, 19 Feb. 2018
  • Foreign audiences generally perceived the new diplomatic style as impolite and tactless.
    — Tyler Jost, Foreign Affairs, 27 June 2024
  • Marion is deeply concerned with presentation, while Lady Bird (like many a teenager) often blurts out observations that come off as tactless or hurtful.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 26 Dec. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • In a pandemic, recovery may be tactless topic to raise in a country where a million people died of the covid virus and millions remain terrified of catching it, especially with the long term side effects still uncertain.
    — Paul Keane, Hartford Courant, 10 May 2024
  • But until that time, Thomas embodies a no-nonsense journalistic furor — if an occasionally tactless one, given the risks — over the state’s control over information, and over their visit.
    — Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 16 May 2024
  • For instance, Sagittarius' brutally honest and often tactless approach could clash with Cancer's hypersensitive nature, leading to misunderstandings between the two.
    — Valerie Mesa, Peoplemag, 25 June 2024

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