Sentence examples for are tactless from inspiring English sources

A Tang is a measure of orthogonality to normal conversation (meaning that 90 degrees of Tang will sever a conversation clean in two, creating a really uncomfortable silence), and an Itani is the unit of negative tact (if you are tactless, you get one Itani).

Here is the second new Spider-Man film – or the fifth, if you are tactless enough to remember the once colossal Sam Raimi-directrilogylogy that finished in 2007, quickly to become the boringly obsolete boot to this reboot – a sobering lesson in consumer capitalism and franchise movie-making.

Some word choices simply turn people off because they are tactless, tasteless, or pompous.

Some items in the "inappropriate initiation" subscale may tap into impulsive ADHD behaviors (in particular, the CCC item "he/she talks too much"), but items in the "conversational context" subscale (e.g., "he/she can understand sarcasm" or "he/she says things which are tactless or socially inappropriate") have no apparent link with ADHD features.

In his dealings with Indonesians van Imhoff was tactless.

If you're a Republican candidate for the presidency, and you're trying to figure out if you've reached the limits of acceptability in attacking Barack Obama, here's an easy marker: Even House Speaker John Boehner thinks you're tactless.

Don't be tactless.

This was tactless.

To ask for more is tactless.

She can be tactless without meaning to be.

Nobody wants to be tactless and, plainly, it is always going to be a difficult issue.