All 10 Uses
tact
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A Room With A View
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- "You must have it," said Miss Bartlett, part of whose travelling expenses were paid by Lucy's mother—a piece of generosity to which she made many a tactful allusion.†
Chpt 1tactful = to say or handle things in a way that makes others feel good about them
- He has no tact and no manners—I don't mean by that that he has bad manners—and he will not keep his opinions to himself.†
Chpt 1tact = the ability or act of saying or handling things in such a way that others feel good about them
- If only Mr. Emerson was more tactful!†
Chpt 1tactful = to say or handle things in a way that makes others feel good about them
- No, he is not tactful; yet, have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time—beautiful?†
Chpt 1
- The chapel was already filled with an earnest congregation, and out of them rose the voice of a lecturer, directing them how to worship Giotto, not by tactful valuations, but by the standards of the spirit.†
Chpt 2
- "How silly of them!" said Lucy, though in her heart she sympathized; "I think that a kind action done tactfully—"†
Chpt 2 *tactfully = in a manner that makes others feel good
- Tact!†
Chpt 2tact = the ability or act of saying or handling things in such a way that others feel good about them
- Indirectly, by means of tact and a spotless name, a lady could accomplish much.†
Chpt 4
- One woman, when I wrote—a tactful letter, you know—asking her to explain her social position to me, replied that she would pay the rent in advance.†
Chpt 9tactful = to say or handle things in a way that makes others feel good about them
- By his tact and common sense, and by his influence as a clergyman—for a clergyman who was not a fool influenced Mrs. Honeychurch greatly—he bent her to their purpose, "I don't see why Greece is necessary," she said; "but as you do, I suppose it is all right.†
Chpt 18tact = the ability or act of saying or handling things in such a way that others feel good about them
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)