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Tactful

adjective

Having or showing a sense of what is fitting and considerate in dealing with others. "A tactful remark eased her embarrassment"

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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... was solid of build and entirely sensible and practical of mind. He was spoken of as "sound" and "capable," for it is thus we describe men with a word, and his mind was adjusted so as to give room for only one idea at a time. He was convinced that he was tactful to a fault, nothing had ever shaken him in this belief, and his personal courage was the courage of the British lion. Hartley was popular and on friendly ...

— The Pointing Man - A Burmese Mystery • Marjorie Douie

... Brutus against the triumvirs. After Philippi Cornificius kept up the hopeless struggle in Africa for several months until finally he was defeated and put to death. If he be Vergil's Daphnis we have an explanation of why his identity escaped the notice of curious scholars. Tactful silence became quite necessary at a time when almost every household at Rome was rent by divided sympathies, and yet brotherhood in art could hardly be entirely stifled. From the point of view of the ...

— Vergil - A Biography • Tenney Frank

... off before Mrs. Wake seemed to think it tactful to depart, and since, soon after, she too went, Jack and ...

— A Fountain Sealed • Anne Douglas Sedgwick

... rustle loudly out of sheer spite, I was conscious that the customer had sauntered away as far as possible, and was gazing at some old prints on the wall which gave him an excuse to turn his back to us. I thought this sweetly tactful of him. ...

— Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

... produce his effects more obviously. The greater skill one has the greater liberties one can take in his choice of materials, just as a clever after-dinner speaker may say many things which from a less tactful person would be deemed offensive. Thomas Hood can write his dirges in dactylics with triple rhymes, but we must model ours on Gray's "Elegy" ...

— Rhymes and Meters - A Practical Manual for Versifiers • Horatio Winslow

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