Diplomatically or discreetly

Usage examples of tactfully.

Genet, who tried tactfully to convince Adams he would do better with his French readers if he were not quite so long-winded.

So I left it to you professionals, Captain Bihari, to explain things tactfully.

I said, tactfully averting my own gaze, and brushing a few bits of stray bloodroot off the desk.

Astoroth crossed the room to stand over Caledon, ignoring the dying mans slave, who bore the waxen will and testament outside, closing the door tactfully behind himself.

He carried on to the control room, stared out through the viewports at the weirdly distorted universe observed from a ship running under Mannschenn Drive, tactfully turning his back while the officer of the watch hastily erased the three-dimensional ticktacktoe lattice from the plotting tank.

Remind him that they usually lose fighting the charioteers, but tactfully.

They saw war as they saw history, through an iridescent mist, deodorised, scented indeed, with all its essential cruelties tactfully hidden away.

Tactfully, I would tell them that a maharajah more resembles the pharaoh in Egypt or the king of Babel, titles that Darius bore.

Dulles tactfully refrained from asking his reasons for wishing to have Josephine Aout traced, and said that he would take up the matter in the proper quarter.

She would find a way to tactfully change what she wanted changed without damaging his butlerly ego.

As soon as I could, I got Simon Clode to myself and sounded him tactfully on the subject.

Axford having been allowed in on the front end, the question of Hal's defraying the opportunity-cost of his part in the experiment is tactfully broached and turns out to be no problem.

In order to change our views we have commonly to be forced to act upon new thoughts, so urgent and so necessary that without disowning our former, mistaken ideas, we can abandon them tactfully without saying anything to anybody, even ourselves.

Inside, I signed my name to the log and walked forward, coughing tactfully to alert the eleven o'clock adorer to my presence without the rudeness of direct speech.

O-Zone was beautiful, the Eubanks were cowards, Hardy was mysterious (but tactfully didn't ask questions), the Murdicks were frantic, and Moura watchful.