Tactfully synonyms and antonyms

He sighed but tactfully closed the panel on his side.

It was a point she would have to tactfully convey to Roxanne.

Cultivate relationships, be polite, tactfully aggressive and make friends wherever possible.

The rise of the Tiber and the flooding of Rome in December 1870 (tactfully used by Victor Emmanuel as an opportunity for a first visit to the new capital) illustrated the imperative necessity of reorganizing the drainage of the city and of constructing the Tiber embankment.

The general and the diplomatist soon came to an understanding, and Talleyrand tactfully brought about the alliance between Bonaparte and Sieyes (q.v.) (then the most influential of the five Directors) which paved the way for the coup d'etat of Brumaire (see French Revolution and Napoleon I.).