On first entering to inspect it, accompanied by a large military retinue, he overheard some tactless persons remark that, in their opinion, the Hall was far too large.
Every audacious andtactless provocation fails in its object; it drives away the men and destroys a young girl's reputation.
I have seen lady doctors with whom one could discuss the most ticklish subjects, profoundly shocked by the misplaced pleasantries of a tactless professor.
The French government sent commissioners to the colony, whose tactless handling of a difficult situation fanned the flames of civil war.
Their choice for the mission was unfortunate; it fell on Francisco Bobadilla, a spiteful, arrogant and tactless man.
A similar credit attaches itself to the habitually tactless person.
It took perhaps a singularly tactless personality to husband this supreme and isolated flash for a lifetime until the right occasion should occur.
It mattered little to Henry that the cardinal was arrogant, tactless and ostentatious; indeed it suited his purpose that Wolsey should be saddled by public opinion with all the blame that ought to have been laid on his own shoulders.
Sprawson as usual preserved a genial countenance; but the unlucky Bingley, betrayed into a tactless question by a mysterious wink, had his arm nearly twisted out of its socket as he deserved.
Then Jan told the truth aggressively, and Chips made a tactless comment, whereupon Jan told him he could get somebody else to sit in his study that night.
He stopped abruptly, as if he had just arrested himself in a tactless remark.
As though deploring such tactless persistency, Penny pursed up his mouth, laid his head on one side, shrugged his shoulders, and held his peace.
Chapman, as tactless as he was kindly, declared to those about him that Fillet's judgment was at fault, and thus helped to increase the uproar.
I suppose I have grown awkward andtactless in my lonely life.
He asked the question in his calmest and most friendly tone, somewhat deferentially as though fearing lest it should seem tactless and be unwelcome.
My mother is dead, and my father unmentionable, to save you from the agonies of a tactless question.
Was he one of those tactless persons who are for ever blundering, or had he the will to assert himself, and not the pluck to do it boldly?
Harry knew the rector's tactless way too well to be affronted now by any remark he might make or any question he might ask.
But it was Willie's doom to be always tactlessor unwelcome, and his sympathy was an annoyance.
Forbes smiled dully, and Alice said: "Mother, you do say the most tactless things!
The Parisian journals, on the other hand, were full of tactless and irritating announcements of an impending revolution in England, and attacks on the King and his Ministers.
A most tactless proclamation had been issued by the Court party, and Talleyrand now submitted a second one to the Council.
It is generally agreed that this was an egregious blunder, an arrogant andtactless attempt to dictate to the French nation.
A few days afterwards Napoleon, in his most tactless manner, blurted out to Whitworth, as he stood in the circle of ambassadors at the levee: "So you want war?
This was a tactless verbal message, and, if given, must have proved to Mary that Darnley suspected her amour.
A tactless comparison was made between the French nation and a bon vivant of sixty-five who flatters himself that he can enjoy life's pleasures on the same scale as when he was only thirty.
At such times let the tactless woman and the thoughtless man beware, because everything they say will be a bore.
Deval, an intelligent, well-educated, intrepid man, was cursed with a sort of rigidity of mind and body that made him tactless and awkward.
It was a situation for a bit of merciful diplomacy, but Bartrow the tactlessblundered on remorselessly.
These difficulties were enhanced by the cold and tactless behaviour of Macartney.
Had his good sense been equal to his abilities, he might have gone far; but events soon showed him to be tactless and headstrong.
Meanwhile she has reached twenty-four, and she must have had enough by now of Salomon's tactlessremarks and Salomon's jokes.
Why, he thought, are even the best-bred men usually tactless when they meet people like myself?
It was rather tactless of him to drag Ghisleri's name into the conversation in the presence of Campodonico.
But the Princess of Gerano was even more tactlessthan he.
Such frankness would have been reprehensible and tactless in the extreme.
He regretted now that he should have been so tactless as to stand long before it when Campodonico was in the room.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tactless" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
