Little wonder that tactless buyers at Asda rubber-stamped the rapidly withdrawn "Mental Patient" fancy dress costume when "mental" is routinely worn as a badge of gregarious honour.
Gibbons enjoys herself enormously at the expense of people who insist on "living life with a wild poetry", and are often to be discovered "weeping on their bed" because of a tactless utterance at lunchtime.
A very tactless woman at work said, "Oh my God Kristen, you look tired and, I hate to say it, sickly".
Defying court etiquette at every step, impetuously hugging those she loved and icily snubbing those she disliked, Marie-Antoinette was as tactless as she was spontaneous, and early antagonized the very nobles whose support might have helped to save the monarchy.
Defying court etiquette at every step, impetuously hugging those she loved and icily snubbing those she disliked, Marie-Antoinette was as tactless as she was spontaneous, and early antagonized the very nobles whose support might have helped to save the monarchy..
Jeff Evans, writing in the The Penguin TV Companion, observed that "Slatt is certainly keen, but regrettably he is also unbalanced, tactless, clumsy, snobby, sarcastic, at times pointlessly aggressive and always prone to appalling errors of judgment (an academic version of Basil Fawlty, it was widely noted)".
Of course, we cared about them quite a bit, because Ms. Saunders and Joanna Lumley were absolutely brilliant at playing shallow, tactless buffoons.
We find it somewhat crude and tactless to be 'defined'" – tittletattle100 At what age did you start to appreciate your parents?
As Jamie, Adam Driver is brilliant at conveying the fearless, tactless conceit of a very entitled young person.
And she examined Mary in her frank way that Mary at first thought was "tactless," and said, "You don't understand something.
