Sentence examples similar to tactfully requested from inspiring English sources

How can we tactfully request that the couple not mention our next gathering to Sam so as not to hurt his feelings?

Cooke was requested as flag captain by Admiral Sir William Young at Plymouth, but Cooke tactfully refused, instead applying for active service.

— D.F., New York You should tactfully decline such requests.

(In the nineteen-fifties, Hughes asked Van Vechten to write an introduction to a new volume of poems, then tactfully rescinded the request after his publisher told him that it wouldn't be a good idea).

So do you have some advice for people to tactfully and politely decline requests that are coming their way?

And I confess to my students that I once tried to tactfully talk my way around a direct confrontation of the near impossibility of that request.

Tactfully put.

He said tactfully.

[Tactfully] Yes I did.

So please disagree tactfully.

Address conflicts directly but tactfully.