careful not to say or do anything that will annoy or upset other people:
That wasn't a very tactful thing to say! * I tried to find a tactful way of telling her the truth. * It might be more tactful if you didn't come to the wedding.
OPPTACTLESS
tactfully adverb:
a tactfully worded reply * I tactfully suggested he should see a doctor.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for tactful is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is tactful a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, tactful is tagged as adjective.
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