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untactful
adjective as in tactless
Weak matches
- awkward
- blundering
- boorish
- brash
- bungling
- clumsy
- crude
- discourteous
- gauche
- gruff
- harsh
- hasty
- impolite
- impolitic
- imprudent
- inconsiderate
- indelicate
- indiscreet
- inept
- injudicious
- insensitive
- maladroit
- misunderstanding
- rash
- rough
- rude
- sharp
- stupid
- thoughtless
- uncivil
- unconsiderate
- undiplomatic
- unfeeling
- unkind
- unperceptive
- unpolished
- unpolitic
- unsubtle
- unsympathetic
- vulgar
Example Sentences
The Democratic strategy this cycle has been to highlight, and to some degree demagogue, every inopportune, untactful or flat out sexist comment any Republican utters.
When a "good, pious girl" grows hysterical, the chief obstacles to her cure are untactful and sympathetic visits from friends, lay and clerical.
The Massachusetts protest—In Massachusetts the Townshend Acts were received by a public which was already irritated by the untactful course of Governor Bernard.
So unstoppable was his passion that it overwhelmed the management confusion in the Yankee organization created by his frequent top-level changes and untactful communications.
This was indeed Bertha's conviction, and her untactful silence said as much.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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