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    tacit


    1. As I had predicted, we resorted to getting a take-away but even so, we didn’t eat until nearly ten forty-five – a silent meal - after which, by tacit agreement, we all went to bed


    2. ’ I replied, accepting his tacit olive branch gratefully


    3. In tacit mutual agreement, Berndt and I stop a few yards into the wood, hiding behind trees, and look back to see what is going on


    4. ‘What are you doing?’ she asked, ignoring his tacit question


    5. There was a longstanding unwritten and therefore quite tacit understanding between all the Livingsons, natural or adopted, that when the Lodges required extra manpower, they each pitched in to help


    6. That was the result of everyone in the family instantly heeding the call of their tacit responsibilities


    7. Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform, combination, not to raise the wages of labour above their actual rate


    8. Now, Roidon felt sure he had the B’taris’ tacit approval, if not officially that of their Central Council


    9. It was more like a mutual dependency, a tacit agreement


    10. He hated being the bearer of ill tidings, but needed Forgo’s help to help clear his reputation, so a tacit deal was struck

    11. Thus they had an unspoken, tacit agreement: the Mayor gave grand speeches and made bold promises every once in a while, while Forgo got to do what he wanted without too much intrusion, yet dealt with the everyday problems in the village


    12. Without further comment, the captain indicated that the Third Battalion would be able to enter into the same arrangement, a tacit suggestion to Colling that they too must have received a cigarette over-shipment


    13. Ferguson did not comment on the fact that Colling maintained a rack of shirts and trousers in the storage room where the master sergeant kept his stock of cigarettes, and Colling took it as tacit approval


    14. ” Is this merely a new version of the earlier experience with plurality, only now, just a resubmersion into a lessor pantheon? Or, is it a tacit admission that Man has difficulty digesting this God in a single gulp? What about the more ancient others? Complexity does seem to breed plurality, but plurality seems also to breed confusion, and that fosters a lack of concentration


    15. He sees a tacit understanding between the U


    16. but rather encourages the soul to learn from the experience; a tacit imploration to improve and


    17. nominally more “revolutionar” than the Socialists, had proven tactically more flexible, and its tacit alliance with Roosevelt helped it to grow to perhaps as many as 75,000 members by 1938 (with another


    18. with the tacit order and shoved the door open


    19. had not engineered the coup that killed Diem, it had been perceived to give tacit approval


    20. and cosmology, Newton set up what was to be a long-term tacit

    21. and science very nearly wrecked the tacit agreement that Newton


    22. Restore the tacit agreement between cosmology and


    23. We had a tacit understanding that he would tell me what he wanted and it was up to him to bring up a hot topic in that vein


    24. By a tacit agreement, none of us mentioned what was on all our minds during the meal, and what conversation there was concerned only generalities


    25. The Black Hat Man would serve the occasional stranger who might show up in the bar, but no one else would interact with that person unless the Black Hat Man gave his tacit approval


    26. Charles shrugged his shoulders in tacit


    27. ’ Amethi had not been on Modi’s original itinerary—there had been a tacit understanding among the Opposition to avoid a direct conflict with the Gandhis


    28. In the past, politicians had been accused of putting votes from the Irish/American population before British lives, but IRA activities in Colombia, McFosters’ visit to Cuba, and their links with Libya and Iraq has received sufficient publicity for the Americans to realise that their own tacit support now had to stop


    29. becoming a serpent is a tacit admission of the Female Spirit consciousness at the ancient core of both cultures


    30. Sound familiar? Again, it was one of those tacit admissions that the older way of knowing was driven by the Female Spirit

    31. Even in the Bible, which is a very late male-spirit shaping of earlier myths, there are tacit admissions of the first human being a female


    32. Was it moving before or at the sound of his words, because now it was moving nearer, since he was certain he was not moving, although he had no tacit understanding of what type of body he was housed in nor had he learned how to sense its extension


    33. Now, how would it look for the Royal Family to be giving tacit approval and sanctuary to someone so blatantly flaunting Church law?” He thought he might have seen a slight smile at the corner of Dafne’s mouth


    34. After the movie, by tacit consent, they decided to adjourn downstairs, to find out what (if any) progress had been made into identifying and trapping Kathy’s stalker


    35. After searching the premises and finding nothing but a couple of sleeping children, the men had reluctantly withdrawn and by tacit agreement had headed back to the station to regroup


    36. it was with a tacit understanding he would be chosen to replace the soon-to-retire captain


    37. ” A collective murmur went through the SWAT team members as individually they pondered the tacit order to shoot on sight


    38. will see this as a sign of his tacit acceptance


    39. should abandon his piano lessons, with the parents' tacit assent,


    40. What kind of religious-moral-ethical system is that; but a public, tacit, unspoken carte blanche for the practice of Evil all your life without ever having to worry about a Hell

    41. This has practically always been true of the Christian church: a cynical, tacit understanding between the political and religious authorities


    42. People have an unspoken implicit tacit, silent belief-assumption in the unspoken assumption that modern civilization is better and more advanced than all earlier civilizations


    43. Germany had already told Russia in no uncertain terms that if Russia began to mobilize for war, that Germany would take this as a tacit declaration of war against the German Empire


    44. Into the back room, with a buoyant libation in one hand, a fine piece of pussy cupped in the other and a big fat cigar clenched between smiling teeth, El Senor Eloquence would with a clairvoyant air and an above-average flair, seek non-other than the appealing facets in others and the tacit darkness within


    45. It may well be true that the pursuits of wealth, celebrity, or admiration are ultimately meaningless since these goals depend on the tacit agreement that these things are of absolute value in and of themselves


    46. Don Quixote was not very well satisfied with the divinations of the ape, as he did not think it proper that an ape should divine anything, either past or future; so while Master Pedro was arranging the show, he retired with Sancho into a corner of the stable, where, without being overheard by anyone, he said to him, "Look here, Sancho, I have been seriously thinking over this ape's extraordinary gift, and have come to the conclusion that beyond doubt this Master Pedro, his master, has a pact, tacit or express, with the devil


    47. I was pursuing a clear aim, I was carrying out a deliberate plan of making out of myself, in the first place, a seaman worthy of the service, good enough to work by the side of the men with whom I was to live; and in the second place, I had to justify my existence to myself, to redeem a tacit moral pledge


    48. By tacit agreement they ignored the remarks and insinuations of their acquaintances


    49. and he obtained of my tacit blushing consent all the gratifications of


    50. “I certainly don’t think that’s why the war is continuing,” he says, giving tacit approval to the antiwar protests that some Americans see as unpatriotic































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    Synonyms for "tacit"

    silent tacit understood reserved close-mouthed taciturn unsaid voiceless

    "tacit" definitions

    implied by or inferred from actions or statements