Sentence examples for it would be tactful from inspiring English sources

The first book had been a hit with the critics and the reading public had snapped up – oh, all of 500 copies, I supposed; nobody volunteered the exact figure, and I thought it would be tactful not to ask.

"I'm trying to be tactful here - it would be helpful to know more about the UK government's kind of thinking," Sturgeon said in a speech to the Institute of Directors.

And she explained that while Mr. Carter could himself have been more tactful, it would be unjust to label him a male chauvinist "without examining his overall performance in the area of women's concerns".

"Otherwise, if it turns out this person is not tactful and ethical, it would be embarrassing".

Although I'm not sure how I feel about being filmed for 24 hours a day, but I suspect that if anyone could pull off a tactful and interesting reality TV show it would be Mars One.

These individuals are not always tactful or diplomatic, and can be perceived as "difficult" but they are powerful and committed – to their fellow users, not just themselves – and it would be a great loss if they were deemed unsuitable.

Of course, if you are looking to buy something a little more discreet, it would not be tactful or SANE, for that matter to be shouting across the shop... "Wow mum! Isn't that bra hot?!".

Nor would it be tactful to press the analogy between our George II and their George III, of whom the British historian John Richard Green wrote: "He had a smaller mind than any English king before him save James II".

I think that in this time of turmoil, Google is saying very quietly what it wouldn't really be tactful to say loudly: "Put your sensitive and controversial video data here".

That wouldn't be tactful or effective.

I'm not saying it to be tactful.