"tactfully" meaning in Anglais

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Adverb

IPA: \ˈtækt.fə.li\
  1. Avec tact.
    Sense id: fr-tactfully-en-adv-rC8LVmNB Categories (other): Exemples en anglais, Exemples en anglais à traduire
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  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "tactlessly"
    }
  ],
  "categories": [
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Adverbes en anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Lemmes en anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Anglais",
      "orig": "anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_texts": [
    "Construit sur l'adjectif tactful (lui-même dérivé de tact), avec le suffixe -ly."
  ],
  "lang": "Anglais",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "pos_title": "Adverbe",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Exemples en anglais",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Exemples en anglais à traduire",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "The Royal Variety Charity,« Royal Variety Performance : 1975, London Palladium », royalvarietycharity.org, 10 novembre 1975.",
          "text": "What would the Queen think? Would she be offended? These questions were answered by a spokesperson from Buckingham Palace, very tactfully putting forward Her Majesty's reassurance that 'The Queen has seen topless ladies before."
        },
        {
          "ref": "Michael White,« Charles denies planning to reign as King George », theguardian.com, 27 décembre 2005.",
          "text": "This is a formula which tactfully acknowledges that the Queen is in excellent health at 80 and that the Queen Mother only recently died at 101."
        },
        {
          "ref": "Alex James,« Lords of the Manor », thetimes.co.uk, 15 avril 2007.",
          "text": "When I called Lords of the Manor to book the table, the French voice on the phone tactfully suggested that jeans and trainers would be inappropriate for the dining room."
        },
        {
          "ref": "John Rentoul,« A second Scottish independence referendum is never going to happen », independent.co.uk, 18 mars 2017.",
          "text": "“Now is not the time” for a second referendum on Scottish independence, said Theresa May on Thursday. Tactfully, she didn’t add, “and it never will be”, but that is what she means."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Avec tact."
      ],
      "id": "fr-tactfully-en-adv-rC8LVmNB"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "\\ˈtækt.fə.li\\"
    }
  ],
  "word": "tactfully"
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  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "tactlessly"
    }
  ],
  "categories": [
    "Adverbes en anglais",
    "Lemmes en anglais",
    "anglais"
  ],
  "etymology_texts": [
    "Construit sur l'adjectif tactful (lui-même dérivé de tact), avec le suffixe -ly."
  ],
  "lang": "Anglais",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "pos_title": "Adverbe",
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      "categories": [
        "Exemples en anglais",
        "Exemples en anglais à traduire"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "The Royal Variety Charity,« Royal Variety Performance : 1975, London Palladium », royalvarietycharity.org, 10 novembre 1975.",
          "text": "What would the Queen think? Would she be offended? These questions were answered by a spokesperson from Buckingham Palace, very tactfully putting forward Her Majesty's reassurance that 'The Queen has seen topless ladies before."
        },
        {
          "ref": "Michael White,« Charles denies planning to reign as King George », theguardian.com, 27 décembre 2005.",
          "text": "This is a formula which tactfully acknowledges that the Queen is in excellent health at 80 and that the Queen Mother only recently died at 101."
        },
        {
          "ref": "Alex James,« Lords of the Manor », thetimes.co.uk, 15 avril 2007.",
          "text": "When I called Lords of the Manor to book the table, the French voice on the phone tactfully suggested that jeans and trainers would be inappropriate for the dining room."
        },
        {
          "ref": "John Rentoul,« A second Scottish independence referendum is never going to happen », independent.co.uk, 18 mars 2017.",
          "text": "“Now is not the time” for a second referendum on Scottish independence, said Theresa May on Thursday. Tactfully, she didn’t add, “and it never will be”, but that is what she means."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Avec tact."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "\\ˈtækt.fə.li\\"
    }
  ],
  "word": "tactfully"
}

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