tactful

Example Sentences

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He has found a way to be both tactful and transgressive.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

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 • Dec. 1, 2025

It plans to do this through networking, or linking physical quantum systems together, rather than piling more qubits onto a chip—a tactful approach, seeing as a higher number of qubits typically correlates to more errors.

From Barron's • Oct. 21, 2025

I want to say this in a very tactful way, but the risk of doing this kind of show is that there is a point, I believe, of diminishing returns when we talk about food.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2025

And Rich grins, gestures his thumb toward my mother, and says to me, “Can you believe what comes out of her mouth? Now I know where you get your sweet, tactful nature.”

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan