tactful

Example Sentences

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If I’m misreading the situation and you do really like him and want to address this, there are tactful ways to do so.

From MarketWatch

That is an act of decency, and your “direct responses” are actually pretty tactful.

From Washington Post

What is a tactful way to respond to her when she criticizes what he used to look like?

From Washington Post

Scenes from that controversial appearance bookend “The First Step,” a tactful documentary that chronicles Jones’s efforts during the Trump administration to garner bipartisan support for a bill that would modify prison and sentencing laws.

From New York Times

Let’s be tactful and call it an explosion of cinema, a simultaneously dazzling and depressing survey of a motion-picture medium whose formative years we have just, in some measure, witnessed.

From Los Angeles Times