tactfully
advEtymology From tactful + -ly.
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In a tactful manner.
- But when the shock had faded, more hard-headed reaction set in. This wasn’t just the feeling that, however tactfully you dress it up, the United States had it coming.2001 October 4, Mary Beard, “11 September”, in London Review of Books, volume 23, number 19, →ISSN: