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- "There's the General's transport right there," he said, and then, realizing that Mark had tactfully implied he wanted to be alone with his brother, added, "But I'll go along to the <> Club, and get the mess officer on the ball."†
Chpt 2tactfully = in a manner that makes others feel good
- Randy tried to be at once tactful and truthful.†
Chpt 4 *tactful = to say or handle things in a way that makes others feel good about them
- Sam Hazzard noticed the effect of his words on Helen's expression; he recalled that Randy's brother, her husband, was an Air Force colonel, and he sensed that he had been tactless.†
Chpt 6tactless = 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.
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)