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Our tactless mother, especially, only made things go from bad to worse.
Given their recent history, the question was both loaded and tactless.
God knows he would have been less crude and tactless.
It was tactless, he knew, but she continued to surprise him.
They all noticed, but no one was tactless enough to mention the subject.
"If you're trying to tell me not to be tactless, I'll do my best."
"I have been tactless in my dealing with those three.
However, she felt it would be tactless, just at this stage, to reveal the fact.
It could be somewhat tactless, or perhaps naive, at times.
You are aware that we have freedom of expression here, even to be tactless at times.
"Tactless of him to say so in your presence, Chancellor."
"How could we have been so tactless as to make that mistake.
I suppose it was tactless to be so astonished at where he lived.
You were tactless, but meant well, in your haughty way.
From a teacher and a manifestly nice man, this seems tactless.
What a hard, tactless, insensitive man, one best forgotten I think.
He meant "bad tempered" but felt it would be tactless to say so.
And how tactless, announcing before the world that your wife is sterile!
He stared out the window, furious, mostly at himself for being so tactless.
It was tactless of me to refer to the subject."
I got the news from a tactless medical specialist.
"Would it be tactless of me to ask exactly what it was?"
He hadn't exactly said she was tactless, but he'd implied it.
Cut out some of the obscurer passages, and anything too tactless.
I felt embarrassed; it seemed tactless to discuss the situation so openly.