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• a  having or showing a sense of what is fitting and considerate in dealing with others
  she was tactful enough not to shatter his illusion
  a tactful remark eased her embarrassment
• s  showing skill and sensitivity in dealing with people
  a tactful way of correcting someone

• SIXTY-SIX NATIONS took their places last week at the long pewlike desks of the London Geological Museum, all ranged alphabetically, in French, by tactful Alfred the Seater so .
• A friendly, tactful man, at home in English as well as French, Msgr.
• The Shigeo Tokuda series he has just completed portray him as a tactful elderly gentleman who instructs women of different ages in the erotic arts, and he boasts a body of work far .

• kid-glove

• tactless

News & Articles

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• Should they have stopped the 24 Hours of Le Mans?
  Would it have been better to stop the race after the death of Allan Simonsen, than to just carry on as if nothing happened? We all know that they can't just call it quits this early with all the sponsorship deals and so on. But would it have been more tactful if they did? I'm kind of torn. So what is your opinion?
  June 22, 2013 - Jalopnik

Quotes

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• Henry Waxman in Examiner.com
  He listens to people, he hears what their concerns are, he's very tactful and diplomatic. ...... He knows how things can get done,said Waxman, who chairs the Oversight and Government Reform Committee where Schiliro led probes of everything...
• Bobbie Ann Mason in Washington Post
  Nancy manages the almost impossible feat of being wholesomely 'feminine' -- glamorous, gracious, stylish, tactful -- while also proving herself strong, resourceful, and bold,novelist Bobbie Ann Mason wrote in "The Girl Sleuth."
• Alexander Downer in The Age
  I think what Rupert Murdoch says, he's a polite and tactful man, he also speaks very highly of the prime minister,Mr Downer told reporters in Sydney on Sunday.