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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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"Tactful" Quotes from Famous Books

... the Bishop then, what an opportunity he would have had! How exactly he would have known how to comfort the Bishop, how tactful and right he would have been in the words that he used, and what an opportunity finally for turning the Bishop's mind in the way it should go, namely, towards ...

— The Cathedral • Hugh Walpole

... If paper is used, it should be very soft, such as plain Japanese napkins. Scraps of plain net or scrim are most desirable. Some child is apt to contribute a piece of large-patterned lace curtain, but the tactful teacher will avoid using it if possible, and direct the children's thoughts toward ...

— Primary Handwork • Ella Victoria Dobbs

... Keltridge was charming as host, he was even more charming, taken as a father. He was adoring, indulgent, whimsical, and singularly tactful in spite of his absent-minded lapses. To Olive, indeed, he seemed to be the only man at all well worth the while. Nevertheless, as now, it sometimes became imperative to be a little masterful in summoning him back to present consciousness just long enough to extract an answer from him. Therefore ...

— The Brentons • Anna Chapin Ray

... Mrs. Belloc fully into her confidence and get the benefit of the advice of shrewdness and experience. So strong was the temptation, she would have yielded to it had Mrs. Belloc asked a few tactful, penetrating questions. But Mrs. Belloc refrained, and Mildred's timidity or delicacy induced her to postpone. The next day she wrote Stanley Baird, giving her address and her name and asking him to call "any afternoon ...

— The Price She Paid • David Graham Phillips

... really a very tactful young man indeed, in a natural sort of way. "Daresay all this is new to you," he said; "not your sort of machine. These ...

— The War in the Air • Herbert George Wells

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