(a.) Not considerate; not attentive to safety or to propriety; not regarding the rights or feelings of others; hasty; careless; thoughtless; heedless; as, the young are generally inconsiderate; inconsiderate conduct.
(a.) Inconsiderable.
Example Sentences:
(1) A series of hierarchical multiple regressions revealed the effects of Surgency, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, and Intellect on evoking upset in spouses through condescension (e.g., treating spouse as stupid or inferior), possessiveness (demanding too much time and attention), abuse (slapping spouse), unfaithfulness (having sex with others), inconsiderateness (leaving toilet seat up), moodiness (crying a lot), alcohol abuse (drinking too much alcohol), emotional constriction (hiding emotions to act tough), and self-centeredness (acting selfishly).
(2) Significant differences were found for the clinical scores for legs with and without previous DVT, which shows that the method is of value despite a not inconsiderable interobserver variation.
(3) The quality of the training to a great extent depends on the didactic skill, willingness to teach and a not inconsiderable expense of time for the chief physician, the assistant chief physician and the physician in charge of the wards during visits and when working in the ward.
(4) Augmentin is slightly more active than amoxicillin on some Acinetobacter strains but the difference is too inconsiderable to be of clinical significance.
(5) We conclude that small differences in long-term blood glucose control are of inconsiderable importance for the islet hormonal response to arginine found in IDDM without B-cell function.
(6) It is established that during hibernation a level of labelled aminoacids incorporation into proteins of all organs under study (ventricle, auricle, liver, spleen, diencephalon, adrenal gland, brown fatty tissue) is inconsiderable.
(7) Watch for when he is late, or disrespectful, or inconsiderate.
(8) It’s not an inconsiderable contribution in terms of cost to government, given we are taking in people in the first generation who are going to have big difficulties, and maybe second generation as well.” If there is a difficulty with the Scanlon report Australia Today, it is the sheer volume of information which portrays the complexity of Australia’s culture.
(9) Preincubation of nervous tissue with pyridoxal-5'-phosphate (40 microM) results in significant acceleration of catabolism of [1-14C] alpha-ketoglutarate, [5-14C] alpha-ketoglutarate and [4-14C] aspartate with an inconsiderable increase of catabolism of the rest of labelled substrates.
(10) A few months after I'd bought the land, for the not inconsiderable sum of £6,000, I decided to visit it.
(11) Special attention is given to twins with congenital cheiloschisis, gnathoschisis, and palatoschisis, and it is possible to show that the role played by hereditary factors in the etiology of such maldevelopments is not inconsiderable.
(12) They point above all to the risks of inconsiderate management and indicate the diagnostic and therapeutic possibilities which are available only in a special clinic.
(13) In contrast, the traditional Christian-dominated Bible stories approach did at least have the not inconsiderable benefit of introducing children to the foundational texts of the western canon.
(14) The chemical composition of the tissue has been shown to be changed by these enzymes inconsiderably.
(15) In an era of belt-tightening at the BBC , his salary will be a not-inconsiderable £450,000.
(16) In the fortnight since his nomination, Wolfowitz has worked strenuously to try to temper his reputation as a raging neo-conservative, deploying his not inconsiderable charm to persuade critics in Europe and the Middle East that he does indeed have experience in finance and development, and that he will be able to divorce Washington's interests from the bank's.
(17) Parenteral administration may take the form of: 20-100 mg oestradiol "pills" implanted subcutaneously, percutaneous administration of 0.05-0.1 mg oestradiol-containing capsules stuck to the skin every 24 hours, 3 mg daily or every second day in a water-alcohol gel, vaginally in cream, suppositories of impregnated vaginal synthetic material (Silastic) rings in daily doses of 0.5-0.25 mg. Percutaneous administration in gel from and partially with vaginal administration in cream or suppositories result in not inconsiderable diurnal variation and inter-individual variation in the plasma oestradiol concentrations obtained.
(18) While these obstacles are not inconsiderable, the possibility for effective consultation still exists.
(19) Internally, however, they are frightened, timid, self-doubting, gullible, inconsiderate, vulnerable to erotomania, and cognitively unable to grasp the totality of actual events.
(20) Internistic diseases account for 12.8%, and disorders from the fields of paediatrics, ENT medicine and dermatology (3.5% urticaria) also make a non-inconsiderable contribution.
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".