To keep things from getting awkward, we offer tips on how to tactfully fill uncomfortable silences, toast each other, and more.
Asked whether Trierweiler's tweet hurt her chances, she demured, "I think it didn't help things, I would say, tactfully."
German Chancellor Angela Merkel tactfully describes the situation as an “extraordinary international crisis.”
How can I (a) prevent the topic from coming up, and (b) tactfully move it aside if it does?
Hal, on viewing this new ally more closely, mentally set him down as good for two or three days' fidelity if tactfully dealt with.
If you tactfully pretended not to see them, Helen shouted at you.
She looked at her mother's face, and at her father's, and was tactfully silent.
The duke and duchess were at the chateau talking with the blesses; for the second time Dunny had tactfully disappeared.
"Mayhap your shoulder troubles you," suggested O'Hara tactfully.