Usually means: Skillfully sensitive in difficult situations.
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  1. tactfully: Merriam-Webster
  2. tactfully: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tactfully: Collins English Dictionary
  4. tactfully: Vocabulary.com
  5. Tactfully, tactfully: Wordnik
  6. tactfully: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. tactfully: Wiktionary
  8. tactfully: Dictionary.com
  9. tactfully: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. tactfully: Rhymezone
  11. tactfully: FreeDictionary.org
  12. tactfully: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. tactfully: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. tactfully: Legal dictionary

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▸ adverb:  In a tactful manner.

Similar:
delicately, tastefully, artfully, judiciously, clemently, untactfully, tactlessly, softly softly, prudently, astutely, more...

Opposite:
insensitively, bluntly, rudely, brusquely

Types:
directly, indirectly, bluntly, diplomatically, subtly, obliquely, more...

Phrases:
removing tactfully, more...

Colors:
    muted lavender,     pale blue,     light taupe,     dusty rose,     serene aqua, more...

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Similar:
delicately, tastefully, artfully, judiciously, clemently, untactfully, tactlessly, softly softly, prudently, astutely, more...

Opposite:
insensitively, bluntly, rudely, brusquely

Types:
directly, indirectly, bluntly, diplomatically, subtly, obliquely, more...

Phrases:
removing tactfully, more...

Colors:
    muted lavender,     pale blue,     light taupe,     dusty rose,     serene aqua, more...



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