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How to use tactful in a sentence

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Can you recommend a tactful way to point out that a superior is, let's say, not fit to operate heavy machinery or a motor vehicle?
Inevitably the postelection media were full of tactful equivocations, brave faces and the search for silver linings.
So it would appear that from now on I am going to have to be more tactful and diplomatic in my meanderings.
I'm not sure I could be as tactful about the whole thing as he is, but when it comes down to it, I guess free speech is what we fight for.
A polite tongue provided a shield of tactful silence and banal pleasantries that staved off needless provocation and harm.
Do you have suggestions on how to handle the power balance or for tactful ways to request what I want?
Clint and his team were most tactful in giving advice on tactics and fish handling.
On my way from the lobby I had been musing over a tactful way to approach the interview.
He must be dignified, he must be tactful and considerate of feelings and of every living creature he sees.
If you want to be kind, courteous, gracious and civil, and tactful, God bless you.
It did not appear that such an inquiry had been tactful of her, the waitress noticed, nervously biting her underlip.
Natural light floods in from a slot cut into the apex of the pitched roof and tactful spotlighting emphasizes particular pieces.
There may be room for the assertion that the bailiff was not tactful and that his firmness and size intimidated those in that room.
Maxwell was apparently tired of the tactful, diplomatic route Ralph was always preaching to him.
These are the questions at the centre of the author's tactful, patient investigations.
The issue was not broached in the most articulate or tactful manner, but it did generate quite a bit of discussion on our opinion pages.
When choosing a young tree, however, be sure to put a tactful check on childish enthusiasm.
I gasped, and ever since I have been brooding on the most tactful way to put it.
The agent was one of the most tactful and discreet people that I have ever met in my life.
The letters require tactful, delicate, inoffensive, non-confrontational responses.
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Examples from Classical Literature
He wondered if it would be tactful to ask him if he had ever been a drum major.
In the leading cities of these countries he made addresses that were statesmanlike and internationally tactful.
I shall neither be so insincerely tactful as to welcome you, nor so frightened as to ignore you.
She thought he might have been clever enough to see that, while too tactful to betray it.
She seldom saw Wallie, and she found her hostess tactful, kindly and uninquisitive.
Dr. Bourdillot, professor of dermatology in the University of Geneva, made his examination, and shook a tactful head.
For Frances was very tactful, and if she governed with a rod of iron, she was clever enough to incase it well in silk.
Though innocent of military science, he was firm and tactful.
With gentleness, with a tactful humoring, he would yet win her attention.
Lumley was tactful enough to leave the pressman alone with the star.
He could make himself interesting by a tactful and rugged reserve set off by a grim, almost imperceptible, playfulness of tone and manner.
His sympathy was the more grateful for the tactful brevity with which it was indicated rather than expressed.
I shall never forget the tactful patience with which he persuaded him to take nourishment.
Once or twice he spoke sharply to Mildred, and since she was neither tactful nor patient she answered with temper, and they quarrelled.
It was not in any way a tactful speech, and Violet resented it.
Latisan was not tactful in his excuse for the slack aspect of the house.
He and levis worked harmoniously, for Uvis was conciliatory and tactful.
And every one at the Thespian would be tactful and considerate.
Lady Ruth went back to her guests, and with the effortless ease of long training, she became once more the gracious and tactful hostess.
But just in time I realized that this speech would not be tactful.
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