"You have the most untactful way of putting things of any man I've known.

The question slipped out before it occurred to him that it might be untactful.

Surprise betrayed MacClintock into the untactful question, and he colored brightly.

He very nearly added, "More important than servicing a randy princess," but realized that would be suicidally untactful.

"In a real letter addressed to Cretans the quotation would be singularly untactful.

The third series saw the introduction of two new characters called Charles and Miranda, whose attempts at political correctness proved untactful.

While discussing psychological traits with them in a pub, Ricky's untactful probing angers Hannah.

To divert himself from his untactful suspicions, Yankee took the opportunity to grab the kzin by the nose,,Mth one hand.

Neither Peppajee nor Baumberger made reply of any sort, and Peaceful turned his mild eyes reproachfully toward his untactful son.

Jamie wouldn't be so untactful as to point up an inexperience of which Duncan was more than aware already; he would, though, mean to point up something else.

Using standardized tests it was found that parents of autistic children were "more aloof, untactful and unresponsive" compared to parents whose children did not have autism.

Such remarks earned him a rebuke from the then acting State Opposition Leader, Frank Wilkes, as "untactful" for a representative of the Crown.

I've made the point plainly enough to both Pierre and Saint-Just in the past, and it would be . . . untactful to make it again in front of the others.

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.

Probably his impatient and untactful temperament and privileged background was not well suited to the political manoeuvring needed to mollify the Provincial Colonial Administration and counter the machinations of the American Syndicates.

"It is true, Emperor, that there is no description or caste for one who would be a nursemaid to-to-" He groped for a tactful description, and Skan supplied him with an untactful one.

I suppose if we had a clergyman as a guest here you'd expect him not to be offended, and to understand that your remarks were neither personal nor untactful, if you said the church was a nuisance and ought never to have been invented.

The Boston Evening Transcript, while observing that Wilson's policy was segregationist and divisive, pointed out that even though Trotter was basically correct, that he "offends many of his own color by his ... untactful belligerency".

But if a visitor is so untactful as to ask what a local thinks about, say, the constitution, he wrote, "the resident will say that he has not yet given the matter serious thought, and would focus on the given question as soon as possible, after the grain was stored and the pigs were fed."