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Significats de tactless en anglès

Lacking or showing a lack of what is fitting and considerate in dealing with others.

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Revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse.

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Examples for "untactful"
Examples for "untactful"
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There may be some blunders, some bad steps, some untactful work.
Quiet Talks on Service
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Never to commit an untactful action-inthat consisted the chief precept of Doubelov's life.
The Created Legend
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Later, at home, Irinushka was scolded for her behaviour, regarded as untactful by Priest Zakrasin.
The Created Legend
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It gave them an opportunity of interfering in Scottish affairs, not, indeed, in the untactful manner in which Henry VIII.
History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the Frenc...
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Patricia felt a bit uncomfortable at this untactful speech, but Constance merely laughed and nodded back over her shoulder at the indifferent Rosamond.
Miss Pat at Artemis Lodge
Ús de tactless en anglès
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In addition; a possibly tactless comment could be taken the wrong way!
The South African
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I suppose I have grown awkward and tactless in my lonely life.
The Witch of Prague: A Fantastic Tale
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In fairness to Drum, his was a reasonable, if slightly tactless, response.
The Guardian
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Well-meaning but tactless, Abe Cone expressed the general feeling, when he observed:
The Man from the Bitter Roots
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The amiable but tactless Snavely saw a happy solution of the problem.
Golden Stories / A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost...
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The spiritual anguish induced by that tactless speech had become noticeably lessened.
Right Ho, Jeeves
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Mrs. Rheinholdt was suddenly aware that she was becoming a little tactless.
The Black Box
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She was blunt, without being tactless, and her conversation was sometimes piquant.
Ranching for Sylvia
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But an instant's reflection told him that the question would be tactless.
Don Orsino
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Which tactless, though I admit unavoidable, reply did not greatly please Doria.
Jaffery
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He did not, however, rush up to her with Alick's tactless precipitancy.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
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My cousin Edward Stafford is tactless; is he to die for it?'
The King’s Curse
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Though he was perhaps a little tactless, young Gerald Rivers was perfectly right.
New york: the novel
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The 'Victory' also struck me as a trifle premature, not to say tactless.
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
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However tactless William may have been, his talents were noticed elsewhere in Australia.
The suspicions of mr. whicher: a shocking murder and the undoing...
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I thought about his tactless treatment of Geneva and Gideon Banks.
Bare Bones
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