tactlessly

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From tactless + -ly.

Yet I always thought she might have taken him, in that flaming October, if he hadn't so flagrantly, tactlessly liked the place. — The best short stories of 1920, and the yearbook of the American short story, Unknown
But, because the offer was obviously and tactlessly for a service to be rendered, I had no choice except to cut him off there. — The Great Gatsby, F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald
She had laughed quite easily the day that one of the older workmen had said to her kindly, if tactlessly: "Ah, Miss Williams--or ma'am, as I s'pose I ought to say--I do feel sorry for you, I do. — The Boy with Wings, Berta Ruck

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