tactful

tactful
    adj 1: having or showing a sense of what is fitting and
           considerate in dealing with others; "she was tactful
           enough not to shatter his illusion"; "a tactful remark
           eased her embarrassment" [ant: {tactless}, {untactful}]
    2: showing skill and sensitivity in dealing with people; "by
       diplomatic conduct he avoided antagonizing anyone"; "a
       tactful way of correcting someone"; "the agency got the kid-
       glove treatment on Capitol Hill" [syn: {tactful}, {kid-
       glove}]
    

Tactful \Tact"ful\, a.
   Full of tact; characterized by a discerning sense of what is
   right, proper, or judicious.
   [Webster 1913 Suppl.] Tactic
    

133 Moby Thesaurus words for "tactful":
      Daedalian, accommodating, accommodative, accurate, acute, adept,
      adroit, affable, agreeable, allergic, anaphylactic, appreciative,
      apt, artistic, attentive, authoritative, bravura, brilliant,
      careful, civil, clean, clever, complaisant, considerate,
      coordinated, courteous, crack, crackerjack, critical, cunning,
      cute, daedal, deferential, deft, delicate, dexterous, dextrous,
      differential, diplomatic, discerning, discreet, discriminate,
      discriminating, discriminative, distinctive, distinguishing,
      empathetic, empathic, exact, excellent, expert, fair, fancy,
      fastidious, fine, good, goodish, goosy, graceful, gracious, handy,
      heedful, helpful, hyperesthetic, hyperpathic, hypersensitive,
      indulgent, ingenious, irritable, itchy, judicious, lenient,
      magisterial, masterful, masterly, mindful, mindful of others, neat,
      nervous, nice, no mean, obliging, overrefined, oversensible,
      oversensitive, overtender, passible, perceptive, polished, polite,
      politic, precise, prickly, professional, proficient, prudent,
      quick, quite some, ready, refined, regardful, resourceful,
      respectful, responsive, selective, sensitive, skilled, skillful,
      skittish, slick, solicitous, some, statesmanlike, stylish, suave,
      subtle, supersensitive, sympathetic, tactical, tender, tetchy,
      the compleat, the complete, thin-skinned, thoughtful, ticklish,
      tolerant, touchy, understanding, urbane, virtuoso, well-done,
      workmanlike