Word: tactlessness
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Boykin's mistake was to put all these pieces together, implying that Islam itself is not merely mistaken but evil. Talking like this while in a U.S. military uniform was also pretty tactless. Mahathir's mistake, by contrast, was to open his trap...
...time when the Bush Administration was trying to coax a defeated Russia and a newly unified Germany into becoming full and respected partners in the international system, the draft's bellicose terms were tactless. Cheney and Wolfowitz were told to tone them down. But from his perch at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, where he waited out the Clinton years, Wolfowitz continued to talk and write about Iraq. Like a traveler struggling to keep his campfire burning amid chilly winds, he took every chance to stoke the fire, reminding all who would listen that there was unfinished...
...firebrand at times, Summers didn’t hesitate to speak his mind—sometimes at the cost of alienating supporters. He had a reputation for being tactless. While his analysis was always prescient, colleagues say, it was often ruthless...
Venter was clearly ready. His tactless rhetoric had lost him respect among his colleagues, and he recognized that more controversy could overshadow a historic moment in biomedicine. Beyond that, he'd taken a beating in the marketplace. After a joint declaration by Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair in March that all genomic information should be free, the value of Celera stock plummeted from $189 a share...
Fineberg chose B, and Clark played out the result. Sanders rocked with laughter as the simulation showed the tactless boss offending her employee, telling her she had a reputation for not being a collaborator...