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tactful

/ˈtæktfəl/ adjective C1
  1. Possessing tact; able to deal with people in a sensitive manner.
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Much of all this was due to Miss Stacy’s tactful, careful, broadminded guidance.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 262 · C1
Finally, his eyes came round to the fresh and smiling face of Billy, the young but very wise and tactful page, who had helped a little to fill up the gap of loneliness and isolation which surrounded the saturnine figure of the great detective.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 28 · B2

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