tact

IPA: tˈækt

Sensitive mental touch; special skill or faculty; keen perception or discernment; ready power of appreciating and doing what is required by circumstances; the ability to say the right thing.
Propriety; manners (etiquette).
The sense of touch; feeling.
(music) The stroke in beating time.
(psychology) A verbal operant which is controlled by a nonverbal stimulus (such as an object, event, or property of an object) and is maintained by nonspecific social reinforcement (praise).
(slang) Clipping of tactic. [A maneuver, or action calculated to achieve some end.]

Examples of "tact" in Sentences

Our president should be applauding Honduras for keeping democracy in tact!
Family outings, for any in tact family (especially "families of color") is important.
Obviously, she still loves him and wants to keep her family in tact ... but enough is enough.
Those who can not fight with honor and morals in tact, deserve to rot in hell for all eternity.
We want to keep that part of the system mostly in tact, but if we remove the cap on taxes, we want to cap off the benefits we pay out.
Having the bulk of commuters come through the existing entrance, keeping the stairs in tact is "not appropriate, and it's not safe," he added.
As my writing tenure proceeded, I received a crash course in tact, sensitivity, and compassion, which I in turn tried to incorporate in my writing and my actions.
She was accomplished — possessed of that fine perception and sensitiveness, and that ready power of self-adaptation to the peculiarities and moods of others, which we term tact — and was, moreover, gifted with a certain natural grace, and manners the most winning imaginable.
A wealthy cit has as little regard for men of letters as a fashionable, nor has he the same tact of concealing his indifference; the well-bred man of fashion, who is alone truly the man of fashion, studies _tact_ above all things, and his tact prevents him ever regarding men of mind with any thing approaching contempt.