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

The tactfulness which their life of self-expression, and therefore of trained perception, tends to engender, is another.

From What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular by Holmes, Edmond

The ease and tactfulness of the answer saved the situation.

From Forging the Blades A Tale of the Zulu Rebellion by Mitford, Bertram

"Perhaps it is heeding the tactfulness of being engaged to one man while you are married to another," he struck back, goaded to a brutality foreign to his nature.

From A Man's Hearth by Ingram, Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie)