tactful
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Tactful and unobtrusive, Jesse Jones did not act like a revolutionary.
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Tactful, 43-year-old Dr. Davison hopes to turn the compromise between the hospital and the A.M.A. into a lasting peace.
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Tactful, he smoothed everything over by remarking that the U. S. has contributed more than any other nation to the Theatre Fund.
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Tactful, the State Clothing Trust spokesman did not suggest that modish men and women are wasting money in their striving for style and chic.
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Thus, for a season, they fought it fair— She and his cousin May— Tactful, talented, debonnaire, Decorous foes were they; But never can battle of man compare With merciless feminine fray.
From The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition by Kipling, Rudyard
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