When asked, we resolve to try to give an honest answer in a tactful way.

I wished there'd been some more tactful way of saying it.

"But you straightened that out in your tactful way," I said.

Perhaps that wasn't the most tactful way to put it.

He might even be trying to help, in a tactful way.

"And we were trying to think of tactful ways to broach the subject!"

He could find no tactful way to ask if she had been raped.

He swallowed, then, knowing no tactful way to put it, said what was on his mind.

She looked like she was trying to find the most tactful way of saying something.

What I really want is to find some more tactful way of saying this.