A person who deals tactfully with others

Usage examples of diplomat.

Sir Nevile Henderson, the British ambassador, who had been sent to Berlin by Prime Minister Chamberlain to apply his skills as a professional diplomat to the appeasement of Hitler and who applied them to the utmost, called repeatedly at the German Foreign Office to inquire about German troop movements and to advise caution.

So easily were the British and French statesmen and diplomats, bent on appeasement at any cost, deceived!

The pen-pusher was self-indulgent and bombastic, Gorgidas thought, but he was a diplomat, too.

Shigemitsu, the former diplomat, wrote a celebratory poem to the effect that, because his lord was a god, he was untouchable by the enemy.

The diplomats go home, and they can pack up their codes with their dolls and take them home.

Busy though he was at the telephone directing the coup in Vienna, he managed to slip over during the evening to the Haus der Flieger, where he was official host to a thousand high-ranking officials and diplomats, who were being entertained at a glittering soiree by the orchestra, the singers and the ballet of the State Opera.

For the next couple of minutes he gabbled out something of his life storyhow he was the son of a diplomat, a student at an expat school in the cityand how his harmless flirtation with a pretty girl he spotted at the Pantheon had led him into deep waters.

Whether she realized it or not, this fem diplomat was sending out strong submissive signals.

Two veteran career diplomats, Ulrich von Hassell, the ambassador in Rome, and Herbert von Dirksen, the ambassador in Tokyo, were relieved, as was Papen in Vienna.

If an educated, cultivated and experienced diplomat such as Hassell could be so woolly in his thinking is it any wonder that it was easy for Hitler to take in the mass of the German people?

Instead of going to the Syrian Foreign Ministry as would be expected of a senior UN diplomat in the region to help resolve the bloody conflict just across the border in northern Iraq, he went directly to the Russian Embassy on Omar ben Al-khattab Street in downtown Damascus in a shiny black Lada with Russian diplomatic plates.

They were a liverless lot, thought Kasak contemptuously, and a far remove from Klingon diplomats, who were well able to take care of themselves, and who indeed were selected as representatives of the Empire only after they had already proved themselves as warriors.

The two men moved away, and Grant was now alone, the hands reaching up to him, a sea of silk and flowers, perfume and cigars, politiclans and diplomats and reporters.

Captain Cohen wanted Li and every other diplomat off his ship, to free up passenger space for Muta survivors.

The other two men at the meeting had been introduced as Alessandro Scaglia and Pieter Paul Rubens, diplomats from the Spanish Netherlands.