Synonym: diplomacy, finesse, grace, sensibility, sensitivity, taste. Antonym: awkwardness. Similar words: intact, tactic, contact, tactful, tactless, tactfully, tactlessly, tactlessness. Meaning: [tækt] n. consideration in dealing with others and avoiding giving offence.
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61 Telephoning the elderly who live alone needs even more care and tact than talking with them in the course of a visit.
62 Tact is the skill of handling a difficult person or situation without giving offence.
63 He explained this with his usual tact, but tact was wasted on Mrs. Bidwell.
64 But the social tact of the Masai was most impressively demonstrated by the fact that they rarely asked for anything.
65 Second, for the fieldworker such studies are extremely demanding in tact, energy, persistence, time and emotional involvement.
66 Anyone else would have had tact enough to at least dress it up a little, she thought wryly.
67 To achieve this transformation from the status of unwelcome stranger to that of fictive kinsman calls for great tact and patience.
68 It requires great tact and perseverance to make some people accept a coaching atmosphere.
69 Curteys was a new type, learned, reforming and zealous, a man with a consummate lack of tact.
70 Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip. Winston Churchill
71 Tact must always be used when asking for identification or payment in advance.
72 The chairman's tact prevented the nearly explicit discussion of socialist principle from becoming more so.
73 The task of discovering whether an ageing individual has a drink problem requires considerable tact and sensitivity.
74 Teresa's skills as an editor and her tact with sensitive authors were respected within the department.
75 She would break the news with tact, discretion[sentencedict.com], even with compassion.
76 At press conferences, he is a master of tact and subtlety.
77 Even more important were his sensitivity, tact and diplomacy in an entirely novel situation.
78 But few of the students were accustomed to thinking in critical terms; others, like Philip, were restrained by tact.
79 The old woman thrust a picture of a plain-looking girl into Meryl's hand. "Your granddaughter? She's lovely," said Meryl with tact.
80 The matter had been handled with tact and finesse.
81 The hostess presided at table with tact and urbanity.
82 With shrewd tact and womanly kindness Nadyezhda had won his complete trust.
83 He was an ambitious man, understandably so, but he lack tact.
84 Its products cover: tact switch series, toggle switch series lever switch series , 5 - direction switch series, etc.
85 Most Pisceans are the soul of tact, which is fortunate since with Mercury still retrograde and accenting those closest, at work and at home, others are in a confused state.
86 In Biography of A Q, absurdity indicates reality, embraces tact, and penetrates deepness and weightiness.
87 He's shown considerable delicacy and tact in feeling the public mood.
88 Has the theory of the solar system been advanced by graceful manners and conversational tact?
89 Sometimes , discrepancy may occur in business , but with diplomacy and tact it can be overcome and settled without ill-will on either side .
90 It takes intelligence, resourcefulness, patience, tact and courage to meet the troubles of any job.
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