TACTLESSNESS Synonyms: 53 Similar and Opposite Words

tactlessness

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Definition of tactlessness

as in rudeness

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Noun

The once-vaunted values of public life are now reduced to the lower standards of private life—venality, vulgarity, rudeness, incontinence, and ignorance.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026
Tell her about the long, unwelcome chats, the bullying and the rudeness.

— Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 25 June 2026

Definition of rudeness

Noun

The public weighted plain disrespect – how people are treated, apart from the economics – significantly more heavily than the philosophers did.

— ESMT Berlin, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
In the millions upon millions of words written and said about this World Cup, who has shown disrespect to players from Haiti, or any other smaller nation?

— Nick Miller, New York Times, 27 July 2026

Definition of disrespect

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Any display of discourtesy is an assertion of power, and those with more power tend to be more prone to abuse it.

— Franklin Schneider, The Atlantic, 11 Dec. 2025
At least seven different civilian complaints have been lodged against the sergeant, alleging excessive force, discourtesy and abuse of authority.

— Shayla Colon, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2024

Definition of discourtesy

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CatVideoFest gathers more steam each year with Oscilloscope’s feature-length compilation of cuteness by Will Braden debuting to $586k on 255 screens.

— Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 9 Aug. 2026
There's videos of scuffles, marmots walking in snow, maintaining their burrow and just sitting there in all their glorious cuteness.

— Maddie Rhodes, USA Today, 8 Aug. 2026

Definition of cuteness

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Advertisement No longer a tutorial in how to be a good man, Ted Lasso returns as, in parts, a gentle rejoinder to sexism in sports and a gift to those still shipping Roy and Keeley, but mostly a workplace comfort show about nothing in particular.

— Judy Berman, Time, 5 Aug. 2026
That his language was English and not American was the cause of ample anxiety for a linguistic nationalist like Webster, no less than my own as evidenced in my rejoinders to a bartender at the Boot Pub more than two centuries later.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 July 2026

Definition of rejoinder

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The past decade has seen Roth leverage his audacity (and fortune) to develop an internet persona that can be described as the Marchesa Casati meets RuPaul.

— Marisa Meltzer, Vanity Fair, 12 Aug. 2026
Mars will also return to your sign this month, which not only gives you the nerve, but the emotional audacity to take a stand.

— Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 1 Aug. 2026

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