Sentence examples for untactful from inspiring English sources

He had resigned his commission in October 1754 in resentment of the slighting treatment and underpayment of colonial officers and particularly because of an untactful order of the British war office that provincial officers of whatever rank would be subordinate to any officer holding the king's commission.

He provides an example, from 1906: Raoul G., of Ivry, an untactful husband, came home unexpectedly and stuck his blade in his wife, who was frolicking in the arms of a friend.

Mr. Bloomberg, who has never had a great filter for catching untactful comments when speaking in public, sometimes seems to turn it off completely when he is talking about the sensitive issues of redevelopment, memorials and grief.

However untactful Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's comments were to an audience of citizen-soldiers longing to return home, his words were hard fact that will not change, regardless of who is defense secretary.