Definition of Tactfully

1. Adverb. Showing tact or tactfulness; in a tactful manner. "He stepped tactfully in to prevent trouble"

Partainyms: Tactful
Antonyms: Tactlessly

Definition of Tactfully

1. Adverb. In a tactful manner. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tactfully

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tactfully

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tactfully (current term)
tactfulness
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tactical aeromedical evacuations
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Literary usage of Tactfully

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Developing a Law Enforcement Stress Program for Officers and Their Families by Peter Finn, Julie E. Tomz (1998)
"Promote Change tactfully and Opportunistically It is important not to oversell the potential results of organizational changes, in order to avoid either ..."

2. Executive Statistical Control by Dwight Thompson Farnham (1917)
"Questioning the Men tactfully.—The first duty of the man selected is to take ... The information must be secured tactfully, as the following extract from a ..."

3. Executive Statistical Control by Dwight Thompson Farnham (1917)
"Questioning the Men tactfully.—The first duty of the man selected is to take ... The information must be secured tactfully, as the following extract from a ..."

4. Sketches from Santalistan by Mathew Andreas Pederson (1913)
"The people are strangers to your Christian workers as well as to yourself and yon must approach them carefully and tactfully if your visit is to do any good ..."

5. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Epistles of St. Paul to the by James Everett Frame (1912)
"to the workers who take the lead and admonish, but that he is tactfully including in the number of those to be greeted for him not only the workers, ..."

6. The Educational-jubilee, a Chronicle and a Forecast by John William Hancher, Educational-jubilee Commission, Clarence Edwin Flynn, Methodist Episcopal Church (1918)
"tactfully ask for or definitely suggest the amount desired from the ... It is good policy to ask or suggest tactfully very considerably more than is ..."

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