词为我用 - tactless

词汇释义

tactless  TEM8  GRE

UK  /ˈtækt.ləs/ US  /ˈtækt.ləs/

adj, If you describe someone as tactless, you think what they say or do is likely to offend other people.(言行)未经考虑的，冒失的，没分寸的

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外刊例句

1. It’s also one of the vanishingly rare movies with interracial leads, and a mainstream feature film bold enough, tactless enough, irresponsible enough to invoke race outside the solemn confines of documentary.(The Guardian)

2. Kiki, with the faded glamour of Norma Desmond, sings deranged takes on Top 40 hits and slurs through tactless banter about current events.(New York Times)

3. Back then, the family's financial and emotional collapse seemed the inevitable outcome of Thatcherite pocket-lining; now, the Strattons's tactless spending seems emblematic of the credit crunch.(The Guardian)

4. 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.(The Guardian)

5. How telling that even his tribute to Aretha Franklin included the tactless and apparently groundless claim that “she worked for me”.(The Guardian)

6. The Mugabe brothers are not the only scions of African strongmen who are tactless about what they share on social media.(TheEconomist)

7. Altheide says he wrote this comment down verbatim after the meeting “because I thought it was a savagely tactless analogy for a Swiss man to be making.”(The Verge)

8. We hoped, without being tactless enough to ask, that she’d scraped together enough money for the disposal fee, in the face of the cat’s death.(The Verge)

9. And it is especially tactless to do so over the objections of the person most concerned.(Washington Post)

10. She thinks she's dispensing valuable insights, but her comments are often tactless and insulting.(Washington Post)

11. In this version, the woman is a tactless workaholic who needs to connect with her feelings; just don’t expect those to entail an even greater appreciation for her job.(New York Times)

12. She's often in tears, reeling from the sheer exhaustion of the brutal monthlong fashion show calendar, or upset about a tactless comment from one of the professionals backstage.(Seattle Times)

词汇搭配

tactless people, comment, remark, thing | tactless about | tactless enough

词汇家族

tact, tactful,tactlessly, tactlessness

词汇来源

"characterized by want of tact," 1830, from tact + -less.

近义词

brash, graceless, ill-advised, imprudent, inadvisable, indelicate, indiscreet, injudicious, undiplomatic, unwise

反义词

advisable, discreet, judicious, prudent, tactful, wise

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