Tactful

I would have tried to remain tactful, but I definitely would have spoken up. ❋ Ewe Are Here (2008)

Once the business is given the tools needed to streamline its processes, it's crucial for IT to remain tactful. ❋ Marketa Hulpcachova (2010)

Such, then, is the man who observes the mean, whether he be called tactful or ready-witted. ❋ Aristotle (2002)

The girl proved her right to be called tactful, and, seeing her advantage, followed it up quickly by a few bright words. ❋ Grace Livingston Hill (1906)

If you lean towards "tactful," the less emotional people people in your life may feel frustrated, wanting you to just "spit it out, already." ❋ Debbie Robins (2011)

David, anything to say about the 'tactful' Hamas charter that orders the indiscriminate killing of all Jews? ❋ Unknown (2009)

I'm not a fan of censorship, but there is a balance to be struck between an artist's exploration in subject and media, and resulting useful (read in part, "tactful") artwork. ❋ Unknown (2008)

For me, tactful and tacky are not opposites, because "tactful" can only be used to refer to things people say, and "tacky" can only be used of actual objects or colour schemes, or clothes or whatever, but definitely physical things. ❋ StyleyGeek (2007)

However "tactful" the title of the post is the opposite of "tacky." ❋ StyleyGeek (2007)

Mosisili paid tribute to the Lesotho police for the "tactful" manner in which they had handled the "provocative" behaviour of the demonstrators. ❋ Unknown (1998)

It was a kind of tactful revenge for all my mother's early misgivings on the train that I now drew the attention of a busload of passengers to the virtues of a rival reducer of cattle to size. ❋ Peter, Ustinov (1977)

The demand for terminological purity can be pushed beyond the scientifically "tactful" and productive. ❋ Spiegel, Leo A. (1976)

If you want that, Cooly; if you want what are called 'tactful' methods, you'll have to go to some other man. ❋ Unknown (1912)

No! I am not going to call them "eighty years young," or employ any of those banal euphemisms with which would-be "tactful" but really club-footed sentimentalists insult the intelligence of the so-called "old." ❋ Richard Le Gallienne (1906)

The action of the Lord Mayor may have been "tactful," but is was certainly not free from an admixture of timidity. ❋ I. [Translator] Friedlaender (1900)

Well-informed and acutely critical he will probably be; but he will lack the saving grace of that "tactful" faculty which years of many-sided self-expression can alone evolve, -- a faculty which (as we have seen) is subtly adaptive when it deals with small matters, boldly imaginative when it deals with great matters, and delicately sympathetic along the whole range of its activity. ❋ Edmond Holmes (1893)

Poor Mrs. Sims, between her extreme honesty and her desire to see the schoolmaster, whom she really loved, assured of future comfort, had much ado to be 'tactful' and say the right thing. ❋ Lily Dougall (1890)

Never mind tactical, would a nuclear handgun be a "tactful" nuke? ❋ Unknown (2010)

A tactful [way] of correcting her ❋ Sydney Javes (2014)

Discussing [religion] may require [tact], depending on how sensitive the people you [discuss] it with are. ❋ Last Pariah (2010)

The [ability] to say [and do] the right thing [at the right time]. ❋ QuestD40 (2005)

Getting [the news] that I am dying wasn't [too bad]. That doctor has [tact]! ❋ Tyler611 (2015)

Tact ❋ Edward Strange. (2009)

“ I heard he cut her from groin to [sternum]” it’s called [tact] you [fuckrag] ❋ It’s A Scream Baby (2022)

If [you don't] believe in your abilities as a [wise-ass], use [tact]. ❋ WadaTah (2003)

u canfind me [inthe] [club].. in TACT ❋ Baby Gurl (2005)

"[Well], that was [tactful]" ❋ Mp6 (2017)

Wayne: If those [headers] are fake, I will sue your ass. [PF]:Fuck off, or we'll finger your wife. Wayne: *thinks "HOLY FUCKING SHIT!"* That my friends, is [tact]. ❋ A Cunt From PF (2011)