What's the difference between actless and tactless?

Actless


Definition:

  • (a.) Without action or spirit.

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Tactless


Definition:

  • (a.) Destitute of tact.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "I haven't done years of diversity training, so sometimes I say things which are probably tactless, and I don't mean to, to be honest, I don't mean to do that.
  • (2) There was one sticky moment, when Mr Cameron was reminded by a tactless journalist that he had once described his new coalition partner as "my favourite political joke".
  • (3) Jean-Paul Corap, an artist, felt the tweet was tactless.
  • (4) Little wonder that tactless buyers at Asda rubber-stamped the rapidly withdrawn "Mental Patient" fancy dress costume when "mental" is routinely worn as a badge of gregarious honour.
  • (5) the physician-originated spread of "shipyard eye," tactless behavior toward patients, and lapses in malaria eradication programs.
  • (6) Little, Will Mellor, Natalie Casey and Sheridan Smith may be the bigger names, but Louise is the comic genius - needy, self-obsessed and tactless to the point of psychopathology.
  • (7) All kinds of petty discomforts – overcrowded rooms, long hours, arbitrary or tactless treatment – were overlooked in the general sense of adventure, progress, and public service.
  • (8) I ask if she still listens to the show, and get the most comically tactless answer: “No, I don’t.
  • (9) Last year he managed to stir up a massive row over a long-dead economist when he suggested that John Maynard Keynes had no stake in the future because he was gay and childless – although he did later apologise, calling his remarks "stupid and tactless".
  • (10) A tactless candidate was another problem: Maria Hutchings came across as more Ukip and less Conservative than Ukip's own smooth-talking Diane James.
  • (11) It is true that there has been some tactless western patronising along the way.
  • (12) Though foreign media highlighted Berlusconi's characteristically tactless remark that the homeless should think of themselves as being on a "camping weekend", his slip was barely reported in Italy itself.
  • (13) In 2003, he headbutted a policeman in a Paris casino rumpus and was subsequently fined and given a suspended jail term, tactlessly telling the press that to assault a cop was “the dream of every Frenchman”.
  • (14) The rant about late payments was many things: unprofessional, relentless, vitriolic when he dealt with listeners telling him to stop moaning, self-indulgent, and tactless with a young audience who will be feeling the effects of the recession more acutely than many other radio audiences.
  • (15) David Cameron's team, alas, seem to specialise in snoozing, sloppy pizza and total tactlessness – and nothing will ever be properly regulated that way.
  • (16) I fell asleep in front of Mamma Mia!, a show the teenage me found entirely baffling and geared towards, as I explained tactlessly to my mother, "women of a certain age".

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