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
Gallwey smiled a little as he read the document, which, however, was worded with a tactfulness he had scarcely expected from his comrade.
From By Right of Purchase by Harold Bindloss
Yet they are sprinkled with admirable stanzas of natural description, shrewd criticism, delightful humor, and are pervaded by a delicate tactfulness possible only to a man with a genius for friendship.
From Robert Burns How To Know Him by William Allan Neilson
With much of his father's haughtiness of manner he combined a tactfulness and self-control which his father never exhibited.
From The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration by Reginald Lane Poole
