All 5 Uses of
tact
in
Bleak House
- You know, just accustom yourself to talk it over, with your tact and in your quiet way, with him and Ada, and see what you all make of it.†
Chpt 7-9 *
- Even what she read and said seemed to us to be ill-chosen for such auditors, if it had been imparted ever so modestly and with ever so much tact.†
Chpt 7-9
- Having distributed these little specimens of his tact, Mr. Bucket rubs his hands.†
Chpt 52-54
- Nothing but Miss Summerson's fine tact, he said, would have found this out for him.†
Chpt 61-63
- He entertained me on the way with a variety of delightful conversation and assured me, at parting, that he should never forget the fine tact with which I had found that out for him about our young friends.†
Chpt 61-63
Definition:
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(tact) the ability or act of saying or handling things in such a way that others feel good about them