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Tactful   /tˈæktfəl/   Listen
Tactful

adjective
1.
Having or showing a sense of what is fitting and considerate in dealing with others.  "A tactful remark eased her embarrassment"
2.
Showing skill and sensitivity in dealing with people.  Synonym: kid-glove.  "A tactful way of correcting someone" , "The agency got the kid-glove treatment on Capitol Hill"



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"Tactful" Quotes from Famous Books



... was tactful. She smiled comprehension at the official and bent over Sir John, now carefully polishing the back of his skull ...
— The Wings of the Morning • Louis Tracy
... passed through the troubled years of revolution in comparative tranquillity. King Leopold was a model ruler; his deportment was grave and serious; he was conspicuous for honesty and integrity; he was laborious and upright, and at the same time conciliatory and tactful. ...
— The Letters of Queen Victoria, Volume 1 (of 3), 1837-1843) • Queen Victoria
... forceful; his plain dress and unassuming ways helped to make him extremely popular with the common people, in whom he had much greater faith than his cousin John had; and, above all, he was an eminently successful manager of men. Shrewd, wily, adroit, unfailingly tactful, an adept in all the arts of the politician, he is considered to have done more than any other one man, in the years immediately preceding the War of Independence, to mould and direct public opinion in his ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
... away, having in a moment of tactful interference made her influence felt. She was well aware of it and smiled as she walked her horse down the ...
— Westways • S. Weir Mitchell
... said. "It unnerved me, too, the first time I saw it. I thought I was going crazy, when that kid—Mike Fueyo—winked out like a light. But then we got him, and some FBI agents besides me have learned the trick." He stopped there, wondering if he'd been tactful. After all, it took a latent ability to learn teleportation, and some people had it, while others didn't. Malone, along with a few other agents, did. Burris evidently didn't—so he couldn't teleport, no matter how hard he tried or ...
— Occasion for Disaster • Gordon Randall Garrett


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