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tact
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Franny and Zooey
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- All I ask is that you at least try to be a little bit tactful, the way I'm feeling right now—that's all.†
Chpt 2.3tactful = to say or handle things in a way that makes others feel good about them
- You are without a doubt the most tactless person I've ever known in my life.†
Chpt 2.3 *tactless = the quality of saying or handling things in a needlessly offensive mannerstandard suffix: The suffix "-less" in tactless means without. This is the same pattern you see in words like fearless, homeless, and endless.
- Tactless!†
Chpt 2.3
- Just get sick sometime and go visit yourself, and you'll find out how tactless you are!†
Chpt 2.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(tact) the ability or act of saying or handling things in such a way that others feel good about them
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)