untactful

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

adjective lacking or showing a lack of what is fitting and considerate in dealing with others

From un- + tactful.

In the second year ill-luck had raised to the post of honor Ivy Chatterton, a clever but most untactful girl, whose quick temper had brought her into constant collision with her prefects. — The Luckiest Girl in the School, Angela Brazil
Thereupon Pitt clearly hinted that the inquiry, if made at all, must be made thoroughly, and that he would in that case be most reluctantly driven “to the disclosure of circumstances which he should otherwise think it his duty to conceal.” The House quivered with excitement at the untactful utterance--one of Pitt’s few mistakes in Parliament. — William Pitt and national revival, J. Holland (John Holland) Rose

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