I have a dim impression that the grocer, who no doubt mistook her blush for maiden pride of conquest, essayed to make a speech, and was tactfully suppressed by the future mother-in-law.
I took this as a signal that Mercédès was now to have her share of attention, and tactfully bestowed mine on Jack.
The good Cherub tactfully engaged the attention of the Duchess and Lady Vale-Avon, looking so innocent that it was more than they could do to be rude to him.
The dark face sparkled at sight of the money, and tactfully I explained that my principal interest centred in a young guest of the Duchess’s.
In their replies the young men were, as usual, brief and practical, Ruth tactfully reserved, and Mollie unflatteringly honest.
The Pope tactfully refrained from pressing the matter.
He was also sending to several powerful barons who had received armed assistance from St. Aliquis in the past, and who were now tactfully reminded of this fact.
The backbiting did not cease till the great Pope Innocent III tactfully silenced the controversy without actually deciding which relic was the more authentic.
The professional side of the situation disposed of, he touched tactfully on the romantic.
He said all the proper things, all the sensible and reasonable and common-sense things, and he said them, not offensively or contemptuously, but tactfully and persuasively.
It is not of much use to be entreated to turn over a new leaf when you see no kind of reason for doing so; and little books left tactfully in your cell, directed to the same point, are equally useless.
Neither said anything, but as the keeper came up to ask for orders as they finished lunch, he tactfully observed that there was a wonderful fine view of Merefield.
The doctor was showing signs of the severe strain it imposed upon his vision and mental powers, but tactfully refusing Tressidar's offer to drive, he stuck gamely to the steering-wheel.
Aware of the girl's loss, he tactfully made no reference to the sinking of the "Heracles," but confined his remarks to events in the district.
One man had stopped abruptly just in front of Sanda, while others were going through the gate, hurrying on as if tactfully desirous to get themselves out of the way.
Roger, when the rest of the household had tactfullyleft them alone together a few minutes before his departure.
Firstly, Prince Alexander, on marching against the Servians, had very tactfully proclaimed that he did so on behalf of the existing order of things, which they were bent on overthrowing.
There can be a personal going to some in wordstactfully spoken.
He challenged Lilly with his eyes, as much as to say: "You see how tactfully I am dealing with this delicate situation.
Finding the two girls locked in a tearful embrace, he tactfully withdrew; but no sooner had Lilly left the house than he extracted the whole story from Rosalie, of the invalid master, the abortive committee meetings, and wasted iced meringues.
Mr. Ford at once tactfully stepped back from the doorway.
Quickly and tactfully Bill Hayes nudged him back on the track before the expected storm of controversy could break out.
Bill Hayes cut him off as tactfully as possible and suggested that the Eden problem was here and now, and perhaps we should get that one out of the way first.
She did not so much positively teach and tell him as tactfully guide and infect him.
The Kipps' furniture, except for certain chromo lithographs of Kipps' incidental choice that struck a quiet note amidst the wall paper, had been tactfully forced by an expert salesman, and it was in a style of mediocre elegance.
She had tactfully agreed to the search for Lucinda, but she had not liked it.
So he tactfully had business at the works that kept him away from the Villa.
Tactfully he resumed his study of his feet, not even looking up when the caboose, after gaining the main track, slid gently down the slight grade and was coupled to the rear logging-truck.
As they walked back to the town together Gifford noticed that his companion was unusually silent, and he tactfully forbore to break in upon his preoccupation.
Festing wondered what Bob had said about him, but for a time they tactfully avoided the object of his visit and asked him questions about his journey.
I tried tactfully to persuade him he was acting like a fool and imagine he sees a glimmer of the truth.
This was what Doolittle, with a kindly impulse of sympathy, was endeavoringtactfully to convey to the military gentleman.
He began by tactfully remarking about the changes from the old times, to which Murphy agreed.
She could almost imagine she saw Death, waiting for her tactfully beyond the last bean.
The expression of Miss Ford's face tactfully wiped away this bald unfortunate statement from the surface of the conversation.
Walters tactfully bowed his acknowledgment, as if he did not want to press his claim on her gratitude, and Lucy turned to one of the others.
He took charge of the work in the woods, while Lawrence tactfully pressed for payment of outstanding accounts, put off creditors, and somehow provided money for wages.
If I did, I believe she'd tactfully nip them in the bud.
They urged him to rest and one offered to run to the hotel for brandy, but he declared he was able to go on, and they tactfullybegan to talk about something else and after a few minutes let him drop behind.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tactfully" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
