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    Use "tactful" in a sentence

    tactful example sentences

    tactful


    1. In theory the kids have all gone to do their homework but you’ll have to do some tactful checking


    2. The herd of elephants goes back up the stairs – must try to find a tactful way of suggesting to Ben that he could thump a little less heavily


    3. Reveal the faults of another in a tactful and subtle way


    4. He’d not been tactful or gentle in the telling either


    5. Amaranthe hesitated, searching for something more tactful


    6. But tactful administration today, sustained by Cuban officials elected by the people, will assuredly foster the desire of the people to become an integral portion of the United States


    7. I always tried to remain cool and tactful, although to be sure it was better to keep it shut sometimes


    8. be tactful: listen to our side of the story


    9. Sending out questions to your Twitter followers is a tactful way to draw them in to the value you are providing in your tweet


    10. You need to be strategic and tactful with each tweet that you send out even when responding to a tweet about a problem you know your product can solve

    11. • Above all, be tactful


    12. explain in a clear but tactful manner why it is not correct


    13. “Or maybe he doesn’t need to be fast or tactful; he only needs to be himself


    14. ’Sorry, that wasn't very tactful


    15. That wasn’t very tactful


    16. You have to be tactful and respectful


    17. The were tactful but firm


    18. Bill: Michael could be as tactful as a blunt ax in his correspondence with his French supporters


    19. She never was terribly tactful


    20. Had not John been tactful and sagacious, he would undoubtedly have been killed as was his more outspoken brother James

    21. 18 As you grow older in years and more experienced in the affairs of the kingdom, are you becoming more tactful in dealing with troublesome mortals and more tolerant in living with stubborn associates? Tact is the fulcrum of social leverage, and tolerance is the earmark of a great soul


    22. Warning, even when administered in the most tactful manner and conveyed in the most kindly spirit, as a rule, only intensifies hatred and fires the evil determination to carry out to the full one's own selfish projects, when love is once really dead


    23. “I believe I know how to be tactful, I have been married for a few years


    24. that you are still grieving and that it wasn’t very tactful of me to come here and


    25. Is there any tactful way for me to suggest they ask for an accounting of the money? I guess not


    26. It seemed that I had been too subtle, too tactful


    27. not helped by the tactful way that Doon had broken the news to him that Halfshaft and Takina


    28. I promise I will be tactful - he won’t have a clue why I’m asking, and he’s sensible enough not to enquire


    29. He wished he had been more tactful somehow


    30. better had she been more tactful, but she proved to be a good academic instructor

    31. In his usual tactful way, Mohammad Amin reciprocated the pasha’s hearty reception with words that were equally pleasing to him


    32. For once I had been tactful


    33. What he would suggest, he said, was a comfortable betrothal next day; it was too late for one that night, he said, pulling out his watch, but next day; and as she retreated sideways step by step up the stairs, silent through an inability immediately to find an answer that seemed tactful enough, he had eyed her very severely and inquired of her with a raised voice what, then, the ado was all about


    34. She took the children for outings in the forest, and while they did not chatter merrily together and did not play at games she thought over all the ways that were really tactful of luring him to reasonable discussion


    35. In as tactful a way as possible, Miss Ashton had also warned Mrs


    36. When and how could she talk to him about things like this? When would he be in such a mood that she would be able to do so without making them worse? And how, in what words sufficiently tactful, sufficiently gentle, would she be able to avoid his being offended? She must manage somehow


    37. Chesterton, however, hadn't so much been quick as tactful, managing, and prudent


    38. He considered it more tactful to send PW Willis, more friendly and feminine


    39. "Statue Of a Fool," with a fairly more tactful title:


    40. was not a case of tactful politeness, as inventors like to argue, but a case where no one present really

    41. Panos did not understand what she meant and was too tactful to ask


    42. This was by no means a tactful reaction: The beast, even with half its body hidden underwater, held the advantage in regard to size and strength


    43. Make sure there is plenty of eye contact, and be open and honest, yet tactful, when you express yourself


    44. Two people unselfish and considerate, tactful and warmhearted, and salted with humor, who are in love, have the most essential of all qualifications for a successful marriage--they have character


    45. The author had hinted that Jack had been a reluctant recruit, and had not taken easily to monastic discipline; at any rate, his novitiate had ended abruptly in circumstances over which Timothy drew a tactful veil


    46. He was now in just the frame of mind that the tactful Rat had quietly worked to bring about in him


    47. Presently the tactful Mole slipped away and returned with a pencil and a few


    48. Melanie, the most tactful of women, had tears in her eyes at her own cruelty


    49. The most important was how to make Frank realize, in a tactful manner, that his store should bring in more money


    50. Around Melanie’s tactful and self-effacing person, there rapidly grew up a clique of young and old who represented what was left of the best of Atlanta’s ante-bellum society, all poor in purse, all proud in family, die-hards of the stoutest variety











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    Synonyms for "tactful"

    kid-glove tactful deliberate delicate concerned gentle careful conscientious discreet

    "tactful" definitions

    having or showing a sense of what is fitting and considerate in dealing with others


    showing skill and sensitivity in dealing with people