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Princeton's WordNet

  1. tacitlyadverb

    in a tacit manner; by unexpressed agreement

    "they are tacitly expected to work 10 hours a day"

Wiktionary

  1. tacitlyadverb

    In a tacit manner; done in silence or implied.

    Your failure to object to the request resulted in you tacitly approving the change.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Tacitlyadverb

    Silently; without oral expression.

    Etymology: from tacit.

    While they are exposing another’s weaknesses, they are tacitly aiming at their own commendations. Addison.

    Indulgence to the vices of men can never be tacitly implied, since they are plainly forbidden in scripture. John Rogers, Serm.

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  1. tacitly

    Tacitly refers to something done or understood without directly expressing it or speaking about it openly. It typically implies implied or inferred actions or understandings, often characterized by indirectness, subtlety, or silence.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of tacitly in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of tacitly in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of tacitly in a Sentence

  1. Meryl Streep:

    I was n’t deliberately silent. I did n’t know. I don’t tacitly approve of rape. I did n’t know. I don’t like young women being assaulted. I did n’t know this was happening.

  2. President Barack Obama:

    The longer that we allow the political rhetoric of late to continue, and the longer that we tacitly accept it, we create a permission structure that allows the animosity in one corner of our politics to infect our broader society, and animosity breeds animosity.

  3. Barack Obama:

    But here's one thing that we can feel, we know, if our rhetoric about each other gets that mean. When we don't just disagree with people, but we start demonizing them, making wild, crazy allegations about them. That creates a dangerous climate. And if elected officials don't do more to explicitly reject that kind of rhetoric, if they tacitly support it or encourage their supporters to stand up inside voting places armed with guns and dressed in tactical gear, more people can get hurt, and we're going to be violating the basic spirit of this country.

  4. Steve Vladeck:

    By vacating the decision below and ordering the lower court to dismiss the suit as being moot, the Justices avoided either tacitly endorsing or rejecting the lower court's analysis, leaving no federal precedent to govern the question of whether the Pennsylvania Supreme Court was allowed to extend the deadline for receipt of mail-in ballots last fall.

  5. David Howman:

    You mold your style according the presidential requirements, i was a lawyer, a barrister who went to court every day. Every judge is different and you adapt your argument according to the judge so it sort of comes naturally. Howman, who often represented athletes in New Zealand who could not afford his services and paid in cricket bats and All-Blacks rugby jerseys, has been there through all the highs and lows. When WADA opened in 2003, drugs in sport had already become a worldwide epidemic and fair play was merely a quaint idea. Doping was firmly entrenched in the sporting culture, largely tolerated, if not tacitly accepted, by those who competed in everything from cycling's Tour de France to baseball's World Series. With no meaningful out-of-competition testing, a mish-mash of sanctions and banned substance lists, entrepreneurs such as BALCO mastermind Victor Conte operated in near impunity, pushing out designer steroids faster than tests could be developed to detect them. From a small headquarters in Montreal, WADA has grown into a global agency with four regional offices and 35 laboratories, although four are currently under suspension.

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