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Definition of Tactlessness
1. Noun. The quality of lacking tact.
Antonyms: Tactfulness
Derivative terms: Tactless, Tactless
Definition of Tactlessness
1. Noun. The state or quality of being tactless. ¹
2. Noun. The result or product of being tactless. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tactlessness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tactlessness
Literary usage of Tactlessness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Julie de Lespinasse by Pierre Marie Maurice Henri Ségur (1907)
"... tactlessness—His mysterious absence—Irritation of Julie and first threats of
a rupture between them—Secret interview of Guibert with Madame de ..."
2. Forty Years of Diplomacy by Roman Romanovich Rosen (1922)
"... present King of the Belgians, to Duchess Elizabeth of Bavaria—Unpopularity of
Kaiser William—His tactlessness—Appointed Minister to Greece. ..."
3. Modern Argentina, the El Dorado of To-day: With Notes on Uruguay and Chile by William Henry Koebel (1907)
"A First Impression—Relations with Argentines—In the Town—In the Camp—Some Instances
of tactlessness—The Influence of Argentina upon the English—Lost ..."
4. The Higher Aspect of Nursing by Gertrude Harding (1919)
"CHAPTER XIII tactlessness There is, perhaps, no temptation in human life so
unconsciously and innocently yielded to by women as that of tactlessness. ..."
5. Civic Lessons from Mayor Mitchel's Defeat: Why Every Democratically Governed by Eda Amberg, William Harvey Allen (1921)
"Minor Reason VI "No Little tactlessness" "No little tactlessness" was the second
of ten reasons given ten clays before election by the editor of the Evening ..."
6. Miscellanies: Literary & Historical by Archibald Philip Primrose Rosebery (1921)
"His pertinacity and tactlessness were sometimes intolerable ; but his pertinacity
was a compliment, and his tactlessness would always be open to a rebuff ..."
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