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Adjective
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At the end of the day, Cooper's guilty of being tactless.—
Samantha Highfill,
EW.com,
24 Jan. 2025 -
The interviews were jocular, an approach that seemed tactless, given the film’s subject matter.—
Doreen St. Félix,
The New Yorker,
13 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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So why would someone well versed in Trumpian tactics and the nuance of Middle East diplomacy give such an undiplomatic assessment?—
Nic Robertson,
CNN,
5 Feb. 2025
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His undiplomatic talk in recent days of reclaiming the Panama Canal — and annexing Greenland and even Canada — have left world leaders scrambling to respond.—
Scott Neuman,
NPR,
11 Jan. 2025
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Listen to this article In many ways, the selection of Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance as former President Donald Trump’s running mate is odd and seemingly impolitic.—
S.E. Cupp,
New York Daily News,
16 July 2024
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Trump can make vile and impolitic statements regularly — using Hitler-ian language to describe migrants, for example, or mocking Biden for a childhood stutter.—
S.E. Cupp,
New York Daily News,
13 Mar. 2024
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These wishes feel to me very thoughtless and insensitive.—
R. Eric Thomas,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Feb. 2025
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Iris, played by Heretic and Yellowjackets star Sophie Thatcher, is a gorgeous yet enigmatic young woman who looks something like Zooey Deschanel in her New Girl years but without her happy, slightly thoughtless enthusiasm for life.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
31 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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And your only question is how to deal with an ungracious host?—
Judith Martin,
The Mercury News,
14 Jan. 2025
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To have remained stone silent was ungracious.—
Abigail Van Buren,
oregonlive,
31 May 2022
Adjective
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The reason is very simple—the Noto palazzo was very gauche and fit for the party later in the season, to be thrown by Hollander’s character.—
Charlie Hobbs,
Condé Nast Traveler,
9 Dec. 2022
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That would be too gauche, too legislative for the court.—
Matt Ford,
The New Republic,
19 May 2022
Adjective
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The main point is to avoid being discourteous of the people behind us by letting the door close in their respective faces.—
R. Eric Thomas,
The Mercury News,
7 Jan. 2025
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Repetitive verbal abuse, exploitation, name-calling, physical bullying, and other mean behaviors that repeatedly demean players are not only discourteous and wrong, but also will eventually take a heavy toll on them.—
Amy Morin,
Parents,
25 July 2024
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Some guests view child-free policies as inconsiderate, while others see them as a practical choice to maintain a certain atmosphere.—
Anders Fogh Rasmussen,
Newsweek,
4 Feb. 2025
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Is there a polite way to handle this but still get the point across that their behavior is weird and inconsiderate?—
Judith Martin,
The Mercury News,
25 Jan. 2025
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“Untactful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/untactful. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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