How To Use Tactfully In A Sentence
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If you hear this psalm in church, the chances are very good that the reader will do the same thing, tactfully leaving the last two verses unread: O daughter Babylon, you devastator!
Beginner’s Grace
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People look to you for advice so give it sincerely but tactfully.
The Sun
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The film's punchline is also a beaut, all the more so because it's tactfully handled, and you never see it coming.
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He stopped, uncertain how to put the question tactfully.
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Here is a boxer who has a good reach and tactfully uses it.
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The French press has thus far been tactfully circumspect about the assailant's probable ethnic origin, but earlier that morning, the synagogue received this communication: Nous aurons la peau du rabbin Gabriel Farhi et vengerons le sang de nos frères palestiniens.
Archive 2003-01-01
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We have at times withdrawn tactfully from a weak sponsor to align with a new sponsor who is more powerful. 5.
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So, I tactfully swivelled round on my stool, and pretended to watch the guys playing darts, until my mate Barry returned from the bar with a couple of fresh pints.
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You can solve a dilemma for a relative but need to do it tactfully.
The Sun
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The monarch was the referee of disputes, and one of the qualities that distinguished effective rulers from the rest was an ability to act tactfully when confronted by disputatious subjects.
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She refused his offer tactfully , allowing him to go away with his pride intact.
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I've never been called a blabbermouth more tactfully.
Ensign Flandry
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If you find her too tempting to see at close hand, then tactfully cool the friendship.
The Sun
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A daughter-in-law should tactfully make clear where on the scale between these extremes her own happy medium lies.
Times, Sunday Times
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People look to you for advice so give it sincerely but tactfully.
The Sun
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Tactfully, she suggested to the editors at OUP that they make the necessary emendation silently lest the shock of being faulted be too much for my superannuated frame.
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Downing Street last night tried to gloss over Lord Butler's scathing, but tactfully phrased verdict on its shambolically informal style of government.
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Do you help her tactfully and consentingly -- the only help which rests people -- or do you argue each point, so that it is far less trouble to do the thing twice over than to ask you?
Stray Thoughts for Girls
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he stepped tactfully in to prevent trouble
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The declaration was carefully/cleverly/tactfully, etc. phrased.
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There was an email message from Julian reminding her tactfully that they needed to respond to the American offer.
LOST SUMMER
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There was an email message from Julian reminding her tactfully that they needed to respond to the American offer.
LOST SUMMER
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Between his babble and having to totter into the bushes every half-mile while the troop tactfully looked the other way, I was in poor trim by the time we reached Nuggur Ford, where they slung me a hammock in a makeshift hospital basha, and a native medical orderly filled me with jalap.
Flashman And The Mountain Of Light
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I spent about twenty minutes reading the wrong manual until JoAnn tactfully pointed out the mistake.
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The declaration was carefully/cleverly/tactfully, etc. phrased.
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So he sighed and resigned himself to signing many autographs and tactfully declining many offers of marriage.
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With these words of faint praise, Maskelyne tactfully conceded a few major flaws in the lunar distance method.
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There was an email message from Julian reminding her tactfully that they needed to respond to the American offer.
LOST SUMMER
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A daughter-in-law should tactfully make clear where on the scale between these extremes her own happy medium lies.
Times, Sunday Times
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If someone is supportive individually but becomes antagonistic or noncommittal in a later "big meeting," you can always tactfully refresh their memory about an earlier favorable position.
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But the organist made his profession clear by explaining that the committee had just invited him to oblige the company with a solo on the piano, but that he had been hitting the champagne so hard that he doubted if he could tell the keys from the pedals, and he added that if they'd excuse him he would go to sleep, which he immediately did with his head on the shoulder of the lady recitationist, who tactfully tried not to notice that he was there.
Cinderella And Other Stories
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There was an infinitesimal pause before the last word, as the principal tactfully searched for the right word, but an untrained ear wouldn't have noticed it.
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* (* Bravo!) and the Punjabi equivalent of "Mr Chairman!", some pointing out that the Maharani had promised them fifteen rupees a month to march against the bastardised British pigs (the spectator in the jampan drew his curtain tactfully at this point) and Jawaheer was just the chap to lead them.
Flashman and the Mountain of Light
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I have seen such as "February", for instance, in the Boston Museum, present for me the sensation of a man of great private spiritual and intellectual means, having the wish to express tactfully and convincingly his personal conclusions and reactions, leaning always toward the side of iridescent illusiveness rather than emotional blatancy and irrelevant extravagance.
Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets
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He then proceeded tactfully to admonish the theorists of botany in order to protect the practitioners of gardening.
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“That was tactfully done,” said Aurelia approvingly, then her expression darkened and she shook her head.
CONSPIRATA
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Vaughan accompanied Elizabeth Mowbray and her daughter to London and, on arrival, smoothed their path ably and tactfully.
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Alex tactfully refrained from further comment.
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He tactfully looked the other way and did not pause in his stride.
