tactfulness

Example Sentences

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Don’t get me wrong here—I’m sure it’s upsetting to listen to your sister-in-law talk trash about your church and religion, but other than the lack of tactfulness, it’s her right to do so.

From Slate • Jun. 22, 2021

They must be greeted with respect, compassion and tactfulness.

From Time Magazine Archive

Franklin was somewhat impressed with the swiftness of acquaintanceships and of general affairs in this new land, but he retained his own tactfulness and made polite assurances of aid should it become possible.

From The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains by Hough, Emerson

"Perhaps it is heeding the tactfulness of being engaged to one man while you are married to another," he struck back, goaded to a brutality foreign to his nature.

From A Man's Hearth by Ingram, Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie)

This relative freedom from trouble and friction is an impressive tribute to the unremitting tactfulness of the officials most directly concerned.

From Health Work in the Public Schools by Ayres, Leonard Porter