Sentence examples for it was tactless from inspiring English sources
This was probably necessary, but it was tactless of him to order a state jet, which he seems to use a lot, while calling for austerity.
But it was tactless.With four months to go before the election, Mr McCain is seven points behind in the polls and in a different league when it comes to fund-raising, so he badly needs a jolt of energy.
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.
Their currencies suffered dramatic declines last year, after Ben Bernanke, the chairman of America's Federal Reserve, was tactless enough to say that it would not keep printing money to buy bonds at the same pace for ever.
It would be tactless to emphasize the sovereignty of Parliament, but it would be self-defeating to withdraw it explicitly and concede a sovereign right over taxation to the colonial legislatures.
Your friend was tactless and unkind to let you know you weren't her first choice.
And she examined Mary in her frank way that Mary at first thought was "tactless," and said, "You don't understand something.
She was tactless and contemptuous and made enemies needlessly, either because she knew in her heart that someday she would no longer belong (and so indulged a pre'mptive bitterness) or because she believed she'd belong forever and so could afford to do anything.
