All 6 Uses of
tact
in
Arrowsmith
- She seemed to him a miracle of tact and ease as she bullied her guests into an appearance of merriment.†
Chpt 5 *
- She had need of tact, for Dr. Norman Brumfit was there, and it was one of Dr. Brumfit's evenings to be original and naughty.†
Chpt 5
- While he was practicing the tactful observation he was going to present two minutes from now, he could still hear the clumsy thing he had said two minutes before.†
Chpt 6
- He was guilty of an absurd and boyish tactlessness when he heard Norblom observing to the postmaster, "A fellow that calls himself a doctor just because he had luck with that fool Agnes Ingleblad, he hadn't ought to go getting drunk and disgracing—"†
Chpt 16
- Mayor Pugh considered him tactless.†
Chpt 24
- "Oh, you got to expect that," he reflected, feeling that he was being tactful and patient and penetrating.†
Chpt 37
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