All 4 Uses

tact
in
Nation, by Terry Pratchett
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They would be elegant and tactful.†
Chpt 3. *

tactful = to say or handle things in a way that makes others feel good about them
In any case, Cahle had tactfully and not so tactfully got the islanders to wander back up to the fields.†
Chpt 15.

tactfully = in a manner that makes others feel good
In any case, Cahle had tactfully and not so tactfully got the islanders to wander back up to the fields.†
Chpt 15.
"Yes, that could have been it," said the old man tactfully.†
Chpt Toda

Definitions:

(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)