Sentence examples for tactless remark from inspiring English sources

(Called out on a tactless remark and asked what's wrong with him, he replies: "Chronic inappropriateness").

Rhodri himself thought it might have been the result of a tactless remark he had made to Blair, tactless remarks being something of a speciality of his.

In this episode, Jerry, at a relative's 50th anniversary dinner, makes a tactless remark about hating anybody who had a pony when they were a child.

(Ferguson subsequently apologized for his "stupid and tactless" remarks, saying that he had made them off the cuff).

Historian and author Niall Ferguson has apologised "unreservedly" for "stupid and tactless" remarks in which he implied that John Maynard Keynes did not care about future generations – because he was childless and gay.

OT has not been helped by tactless remarks made in the past by Robert Friedland, Ivanhoe's boss, about "the cash machine we intend to build", and how nice it was to have so few people around and "no NGOs .The wealth generated by the miners is an obvious target.

He later backtracked, but his tactless remarks - and his even more tactless conduct in dozing off during part of the ceremony - recalled another occasion a decade ago when he appeared to praise Mussolini by claiming that the Fascist dictator had "never killed anybody".

He made tactless remarks to strangers and had only limited insight into his difficulties.

Hurd even manages to whitewash her curmudgeonly consort, a man who has "unintentionally [sic] acquired a reputation for tactless, even brutal remarks", though he wisely draws the line at putting in a good word for Andrew and Edward.

Last year he managed to stir up a massive row over a long-dead economist when he suggested that John Maynard Keynes had no stake in the future because he was gay and childless – although he did later apologise, calling his remarks "stupid and tactless".

The Viceroy was reluctant to pursue the issues because Waziruddin had told the local governor, Sir Auckland Colvin, that he desired only gratitude and also because Tyler had a reputation for tactless behaviour and bad-tempered remarks.