Tactfully using this information during salary negotiations can ensure that you are not underpaid.

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It is hard to imagine how the UNDP's legitimate humanitarian concerns could have been more tactfully expressed.

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"He and I both know our country's culture, traditions and the current state of affairs, " she says tactfully.

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My mother, tactfully, allowed the old woman to die without trying to see her again, but she was the only one to do so.

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Church leaders, conscious that the world can do without them, have had to act nimbly and tactfully if they were to have any influence at all.

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Private service professionals must know when to enter and leave a room, when to be present but unnoticed, how to tactfully update a principal with household information.

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Tactfully ask about his kids or her softball team.

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This needs to be done tactfully and with confidence.

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Broyan tactfully sidesteps a question about having guests over.

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His church members have long been his most faithful followers, and when his retirement was announced last September, church officials said tactfully that being first minister was job enough for any octogenarian.

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Porsche drivers keep their cars tactfully hidden away.

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