tactfully

How To Use tactfully In A Sentence

• But the organist made his profession clear by explaining that the committee had just invited him to oblige the company with a solo on the piano, but that he had been hitting the champagne so hard that he doubted if he could tell the keys from the pedals, and he added that if they'd excuse him he would go to sleep, which he immediately did with his head on the shoulder of the lady recitationist, who tactfully tried not to notice that he was there. Cinderella And Other Stories
• There was an email message from Julian reminding her tactfully that they needed to respond to the American offer. LOST SUMMER
• Between his babble and having to totter into the bushes every half-mile while the troop tactfully looked the other way, I was in poor trim by the time we reached Nuggur Ford, where they slung me a hammock in a makeshift hospital basha, and a native medical orderly filled me with jalap. Flashman And The Mountain Of Light
• I spent about twenty minutes reading the wrong manual until JoAnn tactfully pointed out the mistake.
• The declaration was carefully/cleverly/tactfully, etc. phrased.
• So he sighed and resigned himself to signing many autographs and tactfully declining many offers of marriage.
• With these words of faint praise, Maskelyne tactfully conceded a few major flaws in the lunar distance method.
• There was an email message from Julian reminding her tactfully that they needed to respond to the American offer. LOST SUMMER
• A daughter-in-law should tactfully make clear where on the scale between these extremes her own happy medium lies. Times, Sunday Times
• If someone is supportive individually but becomes antagonistic or noncommittal in a later "big meeting," you can always tactfully refresh their memory about an earlier favorable position.