| Although talented, he was always a difficult colleague, proud, tactless, short-tempered, and easily offended. |
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| They're both tactless and they both love criticising me to their hearts delight. |
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| Focus on peoples' loyal, affectionate qualities rather than their tactless, inconsiderate ones. |
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| Arrogant in their opinions and assumptions, they can be blunt, outspoken and downright tactless. |
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| I was shocked at the tactless way that he spoke within the hearing of the parents. |
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| Marlene, bless her, would make the same tactless remarks I was threatening to spill. |
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| Her responses grew more tentative and insecure with each of his outrageously tactless remarks. |
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| Sometimes he could be surprisingly blunt and tactless, perhaps passing on some unwelcome bit of information. |
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| For a prime minister who fought the election on improving public services, such increases look like thoughtless and tactless extravagance. |
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| Of course, as well as penning billets-doux to gifted actors, he can also be marvellously tactless about those who don't impress him. |
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| Their government has angrily demanded a retraction of tactless comments made by our treasury secretary. |
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| The insinuations that he was a cold fish who never talked with players and sometimes conducted himself as a tactless boor are not true. |
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| Keen as mustard, fearless as well as tactless, he did not hesitate to treat even the great man himself to a barbed tongue-lashing. |
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| Well, okay, it is true, since he has the tendency to be blunt and tactless at times. |
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| Where he is unapologetically tactless, though, is in his treatment of his critics. |
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| What is certain is that we've all had more than enough of his tactless tattle. |
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| I can't abandon her in the state in which she was put by these two tactless characters. |
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| She is domineering, prone to tactless remarks, and often self-centered. |
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| He's tactless and lacks judgment but he's irresistible just the same. |
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| We felt that it would be difficult to communicate on this issue without seeming tactless towards our volunteer workers. |
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| You are aware that we have freedom of expression here, even to be tactless at times. |
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| I found it impudent and tactless to repeat my name endlessly on the programs. |
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| This American presence, as we will see further on, was often regarded as inappropriate and even tactless. |
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| Of course as always in India the presence of my truck caused an assembly of tactless people. |
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| Sometimes the shock they receive and the subsequent tactless or even violent reactions can cause serious misunderstandings. |
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| Apologies from the judge will remedy most tactless and inopportune remarks. |
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| Messrs. Mailhot and Goldberg made tactless comments on the appearance and manner of a figure skater. |
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| Others are the victims of tactless, heavy-handed criticism from superiors. |
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| Sure he could be a grouch, and completely tactless and insensitive, but he always seemed to have justifications for his actions, or at least would redeem himself. |
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| Gracie turned away, and Jade inwardly kicked herself for being tactless, though she didn't really know of a tactful way to ask a question like that. |
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| Then she flinched, thinking herself completely stupid, blunt and tactless. |
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| But Davey's quiet life changes when he falls in love with the tactless but vulnerable Sarah, a Scottish bargee who stays with him in his lock-keeper's cottage. |
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| Was it the tactless non-invitation to Queen Elizabeth II to the D-Day commemoration? |
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| They can be perceived as cold, blunt, and tactless. |
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| His ability to charm all comers of all social classes made up for his sometimes blunt or tactless comments. |
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| Their currencies suffered dramatic declines last year, after Ben Bernanke, the chairman of America's Federal Reserve, was tactless enough to say that it would not keep printing money to buy bonds at the same pace for ever. |
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| And if Lennon was tactless, McCartney was a natural diplomat. |
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| A tactless candidate was another problem: Maria Hutchings came across as more Ukip and less Conservative than Ukip's own smooth-talking Diane James. |
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| Vaughn trots out his familiar blend of in-your-face blokeishness and tactless charm while Witherspoon brings new meaning to the word bland. |
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| I have been told by Canadian diplomats this evening that Mr Berlusconi's tactless decision has led Canada to consider cancelling the summit altogether, or to reschedule it for a European venue earlier in December. |
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| It does, however, mean that matter may be covered which, while apparently tactless, blunt and even acerbic, may seem at first blush to lack an openly hateful or contemptuous quality. |
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| He wrote to me some time ago and I was quite amused by his name, it reminded me of Tetley teabags which we use here, so of course I replied to him and in my usual tactless way reminded him about Tetley teabags. |
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| However, whereas Gisele showed no interest in SOLIMAYEUR, Isabelle behaves as if the company belongs to her and displays a tactless self-assurance, which aggravates the ill-feelings regarding her. |
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| In most circles, no one would ever be so tactless as to even bring it up. |
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| Thankfully, it never happened to me, but I know people who have been victims of this and who still bear a grudge against the cruel or tactless grown-up in question. |
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| To be honest, I think that it is extremely tactless, even provocative, for the Commission to open the debate on concentration within the airline industry at this point in time. |
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| I cannot fail to note that the Russian public was shocked by the tactless statement made by the ICTY Prosecutor following the death of Slobodan Milosevic. |
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