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

Here’s what I’m wrestling with: In order to be tactful, should I make clear that gifts are optional?

From Slate • Jun. 22, 2023

Slowly I nodded, trying as I did so to think of a tactful way to withdraw, when my eyes met his and suddenly I thought: Why not?

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt