tactful

He might even be trying to help, in a tactful way.

But I tried to be tactful with him and instead, he started going after me.

However, in this case I was not just being tactful.

"You might try to be a little tactful for once."

Right about now a tactful change of subject seemed in order.

Perhaps it would be more tactful to call them that.

"It seemed the tactful thing to do for the moment."

He was really a very tactful young man indeed, in a natural sort of way.

It was not very tactful of him to call them bad girls, even if they were.

When in doubt, take the time to ask some tactful questions.

"But the older the child is, the more tactful parents have to be in the way they try to change things."

On the other hand, he thought, if they did see them, most of the girls were too tactful to say anything.

It would probably not be tactful to complete his thought.

But he was tactful enough not to come any closer.

Talking about it on the drive back to Chicago, he was less tactful.

He could find no tactful way to ask if she had been raped.

They are concerned with the truth and view it as more important than being tactful.

Blade could not think of a more tactful word at the moment.

She made no attempt to be tactful, and they walked out.

Even he must be considered suspect, though they'd been tactful enough not to say so.

In an attempt to be tactful, he changed the subject.

Mom sounded as though she was trying hard to be tactful.

I will pass over the behavior of certain others in tactful silence.

He was either being very tactful, or keeping his own yards clear.

"I know what you are trying to be tactful about.