diplomatically

adverb diplomatically

• tactfully — having or manifesting tact: a tactful person; a tactful reply.
• subtly — thin, tenuous, or rarefied, as a fluid or an odor.
• discreetly — judicious in one's conduct or speech, especially with regard to respecting privacy or maintaining silence about something of a delicate nature; prudent; circumspect.
• suavely — (of persons or their manner, speech, etc.) smoothly agreeable or polite; agreeably or blandly urbane.
• sensitively — endowed with sensation; having perception through the senses.