Sentence examples for tactless to from inspiring English sources

We find it somewhat crude and tactless to be 'defined'" – tittletattle100 At what age did you start to appreciate your parents?

His magpie approach to genre and the unkempt exuberance of the prose build up into something so distinctive that it seems rather tactless to raise the family connection at all.

Such a statement is likely to remind women why they have stayed true to the Democratic Party all these years (and was perhaps too tactless to win over men).Since 1980, the proportion of women voting in presidential elections has been greater than the proportion of men.

I could have said you were going to bring it round but I said supposed to establish that while it may have been a little tactless to bug him about a sofa he was the one who was in dereliction of his obligations.

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.

So, notwithstanding whether Ozzie Guillen was unwise or tactless to open his trap in the first place (he was both), the fact that the Cuban-American community of South Florida has successfully bullied him into apologizing and the Marlins into suspending him for five games matters, reaches well beyond both the state line and the foul lines.

"I thought, 'What a tactless thing to say to a young mother.'" Not long after Lee's death, tragedy struck: Tony lost Suzanna to cancer.

That would have been a tactless thing to say to the face of any African prelate from a war zone, who faces daily calculations about the price of his life.

In 1908 William caused great excitement in Germany by giving, after a visit to England, a tactless interview to The Daily Telegraph, telling his interviewer that large sections of the German people were anti-English.

Miller seems to have shown a certain literal-mindedness in her approach to the church's concerns: a slightly tactless inability to grasp the subtleties of its position.

Reacher begins by telling Helen that he will help, if she agrees to interview the victims' families: an unthinkably tactless thing to do, but it elicits important details about the crime.