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    She's an excellent team captain because of her skill as a player and tact as a teammate.
    tact = the ability and tendency to say or handle things in such a way that others feel good about them
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    Tact had never been Rosa Hubermann's strong point.  (source)
    Tact = saying or handling things in such a way that others feel good about them
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    The politician took it upon himself to do the honours: tact was called for here.  (source)
    tact = the ability to say or handle things in such a way that others feel good about them
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    Mine takes an active interest in my life, but has no tact, sensitivity or motherly understanding.  (source)
    tact = ability or tendency to handle things in a way that makes others feel good about them
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    "I think I may be a little tired of my domain." "That's because it's a cage," Bob tells me. Bob is not always tactful.  (source)
    tactful = having the quality of saying things in a way that makes others feel good
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    And what made it worse was that, instead of tactfully ignoring it, Bernard proceeded to make open comments on this revoltingly viviparous scene.  (source)
    tactfully = in a manner that makes others feel good
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    Miller is rather crude and tactless, otherwise he would hold his tongue, for anybody can see that Kemmerich will never come out of this place again.  (source)
    tactless = without consideration of others' feelings
    standard suffix: The suffix "-less" in tactless means without. This is the same pattern you see in words like fearless, homeless, and endless.
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    A few weeks ago I might have found that question offensive, but now I spend too much time with Candor transfers to be surprised by tactlessness.†  (source)
    tactlessness = to say or handle things in a needlessly offensive way
    standard suffix: The suffix "-lessness" in tactlessness means in a state without. This is the same pattern you see in words like fearlessness, powerlessness, and harmlessness.
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    "Anything to pinch a few pennies," I said tactlessly.†  (source)
    tactlessly = in an offensive manner
    standard suffix: The suffix "-lessly" in tactlessly means in a manner that is without. This is the same pattern you see in words like harmlessly, fearlessly, and remorselessly.
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    Once again, tactfulness and pity for their former comrades kept the guards from falling on him or shooting him down at once for his attempt.†  (source)
    tactfulness = tendency to say or handle things in a way that others feel good about them
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    Andrew Johnson, the courageous if untactful Tennessean who had been the only Southern Member of Congress to refuse to secede with his state, had committed himself to the policies of the Great Emancipator to whose high station he had succeeded only by the course of an assassin's bullet.†  (source)
    untactful = to say or handle things in a way that needlessly offends
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in untactful means not and reverses the meaning of tactful. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    His position as the maitre d' of the Boyarsky called for judiciousness, tact, decorum.†  (source)
    tact = the ability or act of saying or handling things in such a way that others feel good about them
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    I realized that this was not a tactful question.  (source)
    tactful = considerate of others' feelings
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