Word: tactlessness
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...screens in the workroom of the main press center were full of pictures of debris. The very images of triumphal youth and arriving planes that Atlanta had been hoping to send out, like the inflated Gumby and two-story beer can downtown, seemed beside the point, almost tactless...
...that he loses to that Olga Markova babe, "a third says, following the tactless comment with an appropriate post-sensitive male taunt: "Neil's gonna lose to a girl, Neil's gonna lose to a girl, Neil's gonna lose to a girl...
...totally felt that it was a violation of mye-mail privacy," Johnson-Arbor says. "I wasdefinitely shocked. Grace and I were very closefriends and I knew that if Grace was going to tellme something like that she wouldn't to it in sucha tactless...
...defunct National Observer. She was fired from the Observer after writing a story that contained quotes she lifted from the Washington Post. Since joining NPR in 1974, Totenberg has earned a reputation as Washington's best at covering the federal courts, although critics consider her abrasive and tactless...
...been hell ever since, aided and abetted by snide, pejorative language. From Latin comes the disapproving sinister (on the left, inauspicious) and the flattering dexterous (on the right, skillful). The Spanish word for left-handed, zurdo, means malicious. If you are gauche (left) in France, you are tactless and unsophisticated. Adroit comes from the French a droit (to the right), and we know what maladroit means -- especially when we see a left-handed violinist bowing northwest while the rest of the string section is northeast. A left-handed compliment is not nice, but a right-hand man is indispensable...