All 13 Uses
tact
in
Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier
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- Tact was a quality unknown to her, discretion too, and because gossip was the breath of life to her this stranger must be served for her dissection.†
Chpt 3 *tact = the ability or act of saying or handling things in such a way that others feel good about them
- The moment I spoke I regretted my words, for the secret, inscrutable look came back in his eyes again, and once again I suffered the intolerable discomfort that floods one after lack of tact.†
Chpt 4
- For some reason this talk about his health was not welcome to him, angered him even, and I thought it tactless of Beatrice to harp upon it in this way, making so big a point of it.†
Chpt 9tactless = 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.
- There were few arguments, or perhaps Beatrice was exercising tact at last; at any rate she and Maxim chatted about matters concerning Manderley, her horses, the garden, mutual friends, and Frank Crawley, on my left, kept up an easy patter with me for which I was grateful, as it required no effort.†
Chpt 9tact = the ability or act of saying or handling things in such a way that others feel good about them
- Tact never was my strong point, as Maxim will tell you.†
Chpt 9
- She stopped, turning a little pink, fearing a loss of tact; but I agreed with her at once to save embarrassment, and I heard myself saying boldly, brazenly, 'Rebecca must have been a wonderful person.†
Chpt 11
- Dear Frank Crawley, how tactful he was and considerate.†
Chpt 11tactful = to say or handle things in a way that makes others feel good about them
- He's looking very well, very fit, but Mrs Lacy was quite right the other day when she said he had been on the verge of a breakdown last year, though it was tactless of her to say so in front of him.†
Chpt 11tactless = 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.
- I thought perhaps it was not very tactful to talk about blindness, and I glanced at the nurse.†
Chpt 15tactful = to say or handle things in a way that makes others feel good about them
- I can see Beatrice, dear friendly tactless Beatrice, watching me from her partner's arms, nodding encouragement, the bangles jangling on her wrists, the veil slipping continually from her overheated forehead.†
Chpt 17tactless = 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.
- What was the use of Frank coming to see me, and us sitting in the morning-room together, Frank smoothing me down, Frank being tactful, Frank being kind?†
Chpt 18tactful = to say or handle things in a way that makes others feel good about them
- And Giles, and Bee, poor dear tactless Bee.†
Chpt 20tactless = 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.
- I remembered the first time I met him, that first day of mine at Manderley, when he, and Beatrice, and Giles had all been at lunch, and Beatrice had been tactless about Maxim's health.†
Chpt 22
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)