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Meanings of tactless in английском

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 "inept"
Examples for "inept"
1
Quite another to borrow money to fund a bloated, inept, patronage-driven state.
The South African
2
Back in the day, they used to be extremely hapless and inept.
The Guardian
3
Greece's national accounts turned out to be fiction and the state inept.
The Guardian
4
Seeking reaction from Argentinians who were so horribly inept is heavy work.
The Irish Times
5
At first, I thought it was a comment on my inept synopsis.
The Guardian
Usage of tactless in английском
1
In addition; a possibly tactless comment could be taken the wrong way!
The South African
2
I suppose I have grown awkward and tactless in my lonely life.
The Witch of Prague: A Fantastic Tale
3
In fairness to Drum, his was a reasonable, if slightly tactless, response.
The Guardian
4
Well-meaning but tactless, Abe Cone expressed the general feeling, when he observed:
The Man from the Bitter Roots
5
The amiable but tactless Snavely saw a happy solution of the problem.
Golden Stories / A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost...
6
The spiritual anguish induced by that tactless speech had become noticeably lessened.
Right Ho, Jeeves
7
Mrs. Rheinholdt was suddenly aware that she was becoming a little tactless.
The Black Box
8
She was blunt, without being tactless, and her conversation was sometimes piquant.
Ranching for Sylvia
9
But an instant's reflection told him that the question would be tactless.
Don Orsino
10
Which tactless, though I admit unavoidable, reply did not greatly please Doria.
Jaffery
11
He did not, however, rush up to her with Alick's tactless precipitancy.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
12
My cousin Edward Stafford is tactless; is he to die for it?'
The King’s Curse
13
Though he was perhaps a little tactless, young Gerald Rivers was perfectly right.
New york: the novel
14
The 'Victory' also struck me as a trifle premature, not to say tactless.
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
15
However tactless William may have been, his talents were noticed elsewhere in Australia.
The suspicions of mr. whicher: a shocking murder and the undoing...
16
I thought about his tactless treatment of Geneva and Gideon Banks.
Bare Bones
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